Posted by karma1 - Today 10:27 PM
(Today 09:14 PM)Dutch Wrote:
Did anyone have the chance to ask Henrik if they were experiencing problems with the command center during the test drives?
My first thought was, "Which test drives is Dutch talking about?"
My second was, "In what universe would this thing's performance have been acceptable?"
I am sure that they knew it was not working. How could they not?
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They may well have known and chosen to ship anyway, but I'd turn for an explanation instead to Hanlon's Razor, slightly modified: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by wishful thinking."
After way too many years of product development, my belief is that at least a few things were at play: Limited testing by a few people who got used to where the "weak" areas of functionality were and steered away from them during testing, perhaps even unconsciously. Bugs that were reported and could not be trivially reproduced by the development team - who may not have had any/enough representative HW - were 'dispositioned' as "Can not Duplicate" or the like. A "CND" should be the bane of a development team and something they really focus on: it should take way more effort and diligence to demonstrate it was indeed a fluke/can not duplicate than fixing any bug that can be reproduced.
This is purely my guess, but those two behaviors, along with too little HW and a rev 1.0 product would explain why we are here without resorting to "they knowingly shipped a crappy command center" or they are overtly incompetent.