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| Authored by: stegu on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 05:32 AM EDT |
Space exploration projects, and to some
extent military contracts, are among the
few endeavours of humanity that do not
suffer from budget cuts so deep that it
becomes impossible to put any emphasis
on quality in the final product. Many
products are released in a half finished
state with marketing trying to cover up
and downplay their obvious deficiencies.
Apparently, it's working for them, because
I see no tendency for this to stop.
Consumer products are mostly built from parts
from the lowest bidder, and assembled by
people taking no pride in their work.
On top of that, they are marketed in fierce
competition with products that have even
less focus on quality but look almost the
same in the store.
Some try to present an illusion of quality
in consumer products, like slapping a brushed
aluminium foil surface on top of it, but
it's all flimsy plastic under the hood,
made to last for at most a year or two.
This is what I used to like about Apple: they
managed to find a way to market and sell quality
as an advantage in itself. I have definitely
never had a more robust laptop than the MacBook
Pro I bought three years ago.
(Now, Apple will not get my money again.)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 06:57 AM EDT |
It could easily be done, but really how often do you have power glitches? How
hard is it to set the microwave clock once or twice a year?
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