> There's a vanishingly small number of applications where it's really going to make a difference
Developers (and especially deadline-conscious managers) keep saying this, but their web sites keep slowing down my computer to a crawl. As a consumer, I really wish that development teams paid at least some attention to performance.
The truth is, performance doesn't bring in the dollars, features do, and marketing, and sales. The incentives are just not there, and these issues what we're having, show that.