I like to install and play with a lot of different software. Even if I’m happy with an application I have, I’ll install 30 other apps that do mostly the same thing just to see if one of them works better for me in terms of functionality or workflow.
One trend I’ve noticed over the past couple of years is a growing fear of the number “1.0″. The majority of apps I see anymore are version 0.2, or 0.2.1.4 or something like that. It seems that more and more developers are fearing a 1.0 version. Why is this? Are developers afraid of support questions? Do they think that if they stay under 1.0, they can continue to call their work “beta” and therefore not be held responsible, financially or morally, for any damage caused by their app?
