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OT sorta - Icom 718
james wrote:
Sometimes mangers,as well as engineers, fall in love to much with their designs and are very short sighted. They feel their designs are better than others. This is kind of what I tried to get across. In the end the management team is often held responsible for final decisions on designs as their sucesses and failures. Comparing consumer electronics to military hardware is not very appropriate. Military hardware has the luxury of larger budgets and one customer. Consumer Electronics is a design for an average of many different users. james Hello James: Sure some heads swell and arrogant egos soar. But those self center me first types wanting a star placed next to their name will be at the cost of reduced sales. Kind of like mangers who want only to emphasizer their important and stardom at the expense of work crews. The real sin here is their higher up mangers can't or don't see this. So the "Boys Club" is in work. The comparison of military electronic/systems to consumer electronics is a great analogy. By this I mean if the mind bending operation of cockpits can be made user friendly so can ham radios, scanners, cell phones ect. The overly complex design of these consumer radios will soon choke the manufactures in sales. Aircraft Customers appoint a "Prim Contractor" to do all the finger pointing and take all the customers product heat. Just try to point the finger at say tires and rims when you buy them from separate stores. So it appears consumer electronics manufactures lack a good product testing program, incorporating human engineering, user friendly button-ology, and just plain common sense. Ham radios, scanners, cell phones, and even my rice cooker can be made much simpler to operate. The cost need not equal the button-ology in functions times dollars, as in aircraft. But a hand full of distinguished radio enthusiasts as I mentioned early, who could take one of the radios as payment for their testing. So a inexpensive testing process can be done quit quickly and easy. Well got to haul.... Jay in the Mojave |
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