Re:Pushing for "Innovations" (Score 2, Insightful)

I agree with you (and the test driven development people) that "continuous processes of small incrimental changes are much cheaper than bringing out fully tested massive overhauls in manufacturing and in software" and add that they are more reliable too. I have to disagree with you on the automotive example because my "new" car is 17 years old and my "old" car is 20 years old, but there is nowhere near the difference in functionality, usability and even reliability than there has been in computer and software over the past 20 years. Indeed, I think my TI 99/4a or Apple IIc was much more reliable than my latest and greatest hardware and software (especially from companies like MS who have the advantage of market entrenchment), while every year my computer becomes more useful to me. Very few people buy a new car every year in order to make driving a car more productive or because the car they bought the previous year didn't quite work right, but most of us update our software often for both reasons.