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When you're in a restaurant setting the quality will suffer if you want more ingredients than the budget will normally allow. The end-result of that is McDonalds. In a software setting it is also the quality that suffers, the end result of that is visible all around you.

Software is rarely sold on quality, most of the time it is on features.

In the end, if quality software is your goal you'll have to open your own restaurant...



When you're in a restaurant setting the quality will suffer if you want more ingredients than the budget will normally allow. The end-result of that is McDonalds. In a software setting it is also the quality that suffers, the end result of that is visible all around you.

McDonald food is poor quality?


For some values of quality.


You seriously don't consider McDonald burgers to be of very poor quality?


Of all the burgers in town (Winder, GA), their toppings are often some of the best. I think they actually use fresh lettuce and tomatoes.

Still very unhealthy, but the ingredients are good.


I guess it might be a regional thing.

Over here McDonald's burgers are so foul I feel like crap after eating them.




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