22 Apr
2012
22 Apr
'12
4:27 p.m.
And of course then there's the warranty data.
How long is the warranty period for the widgets in question? In my
experience, warranty periods are ridiculously short these days (90
days, maybe as much as a year) reflecting a lack of manufacturer
confidence in device reliability.
Perhaps you're talking about something designed with more care. But I
don't think anyone has been claiming that it's impossible to build
reliable devices these days, only that most modern computers are crap
for reliability compared to most classic computers, and that complex
devices are, other things equal, less reliable than simple devices.
Anecdotes about one particular manufacturer aren't very relevant, not
unless it's one of the very few makers responsible for a significant
fraction of the mass-market computers made today. (And maybe not even
then, depending.)
Again we're talking ridiculously large sums of
money at stake.
So what? Companies not infrequently lose ridiculously large sums of
money for various reasons.
Again, when you're dealing with large populations,
looking at a few
in isolation, is I'm sorry to say just anecdotal.
So is your data...as far as we're concerned.
I'm sorry if you can't/won't understand
how large companies work and
the restrictions that are put on employees and the products (though
some have alluded to here). Because if you did, I'm guessing that
you wouldn't have made the comments you did.
I'm not tony. But I think I mostly understand those restrictions. I
don't expect you to violate NDA.
But neither am I convinced by "trust me, I can't show you the data,
just trust me". Especially when it runs directly counter to my own
experience. Even more so when your supporting anecdotes appear
irrelevant, as when you cite infant mortality rates (you can't check
anything but infant mortality in time to shut down an assembly line, as
you spoke of doing) as if it were relevant to with long-term
reliability of the assembled devices; this makes me suspect we're
actually talking about different things but, because we're using the
same words, mistaking them for the same thing.
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