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> With all respect, just because the state of the market was terrible doesn’t make a more secure insecure product good for the end user.

With all respect, let us know when you (or anyone else) releases a perfect version of a product. Nobody has unlimited money and time in which to polish a product to perfection.

I'm in the throes of this right now, trying to beat a once-miserable codebase into something that that improves our customers' lives, is stable, is secure, etc. on a shoestring budget. It's a hard, wretched slog but we're doing it, one point release at a time.




This is exactly right, and way better than my reply.

Your polish can improve as you scale and get more resources. That doesn't mean there isn't a min-bar of basic security practices and ethics, but if min-bar is perfection on all counts, get ready for a long and fruitless existence...!


Nobody's asking for perfection, just something that doesn't get hacked and play pornography for 3 year olds. Nest had polish. Security took a backseat to UX, and here we are.




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