
handle: 2027.42/44349
I examine the incentives for software providers to design appropriate user interfaces. There are two sorts of costs involved when one uses software: the fixed cost of learning to use a piece of software and the variable cost of operating the software. I show that a monopoly provider of software generally invests the right amount of resources in making the software easy to learn, but too little in making it easy to operate. In some extreme cases a monopolist may even make the softwaretoo easy to learn.
Copying, Economics, Science, Industrial Organization, Social Sciences, Quality, Statistics and Numeric Data, Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models, Business, Economics / Management Science, Monopoly, Economic Theory, Operation Research/Decision Theory, Software
Copying, Economics, Science, Industrial Organization, Social Sciences, Quality, Statistics and Numeric Data, Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models, Business, Economics / Management Science, Monopoly, Economic Theory, Operation Research/Decision Theory, Software
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