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    You're assuming things went wrong. At some point someone said "that's good enough" and shipped their product. If end users accept it, well, there it is. (Not saying it's right, but there has to be a balance between ship it now and ship it never.) Commented Jun 21, 2011 at 23:47
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    @Michael : That seems to align with "my fault for having bought these devices", or more generally, "our fault as consumers for accepting this level of shoddiness." Commented Jun 21, 2011 at 23:50
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    @Crashworks: Yeah, pretty much. People wouldn't keep selling crapware if we wouldn't keep buying it. Commented Jun 22, 2011 at 0:30
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    They were developed in modern, non-garbage-collected corporations. Commented Jun 22, 2011 at 4:16
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    Instead of "Is it because these were all written in managed, garbage-collected languages?" I read "Is it because these were all written in garbage languages chosen by managers?" Commented Jun 22, 2011 at 14:12