4 Jan
2010
4 Jan
'10
4:52 p.m.
On Jan 4, 2010, at 8:43 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jan 4, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Brian Lanning wrote:
This kind of thing makes me insane. I would have gladly paid another
$1, or even $10, had they just put the parts on the board. I have a
hard time believing (i.e. prefer to believe) that this would be purely
a cost cutting move.
I bet there real reason had to do with the transition from 8-bit to
16-bit add-on cards. ...
It's amazing what management types will do to increase their profit margins by even
a tiny bit. I'm sure in production quantities that the cost savings was much less
than $0.50 per slot, but still, even if it were $0.10 per slot, add that up over a
production run of 25,000 boards and you end up with another few thousand bucks that the
suit can later arrange to steal from the company.
Being associated with high volume products (think 1,000,000's per quarter) even saving
$0.001 per unit adds up. It's not the cost of the product, it's the multiplier.
I've had to swallow hard on some HW choices that made the HW cheaper but made the SW
more complex just because the multiplier was so large.
TTFN - Guy
Does anyone know why the connectors were left off the
board in the first
place? It seems kind of silly since they went to the effort to route the
signals and have the holes drilled.
To save $0.50 per slot, I'd imagine.