What's lame is the incessant and pointless whining.
I get it it's annoying for some, but I suggest it comes with the territory. You've fired up the locals, they've showed up with high hopes and there's no show. Lucky it isn't a European Soccer match or we'd have a different set of problems.
IMO we'd much rather be talking about how neat it is, but we didn't call the meeting.....
Anyway, in the absence of anything better to talk about, such speculation is to be expected. Sort of like being able to predict the Chinese New Year shutdown?
Not mutually exclusive. I am an incredibly sarcastic, nit picking, shit stirring, serious whiner and I wear that description with pride. As far as the passive/aggressive label, I only use that for very special occasions.
And we wouldn't have you any other way. Such a post would lead to widespread speculation your account had been hacked I think?
OTOH, your thoughts are popular (lots of us share them), if strongly stated sometimes. I see no foul there. OTOH from that other hand, you must be hitting the odd raw nerve?
If the PCB wasn't working properly, how can they start trickle shipping units? Am I missing something?
I assume they'll modify/rework them as they did already, or rush 'first articles' (less likely IMO). While it might be nice to finally get one, if I were in the game I'd rather wait a few weeks more and get the corrected version from a normal run?
It doesn't sound to me like the internal engineering is at fault, but rather the manufacturing end of things mostly ...at least as they tell it.
Bingo! Or very close to it IMO. But I think the problem is higher up, in the project management area. I suggest Engineering is going on right now, some might say at a frenzied pace? That should have ended two releases back. This first production run should be running on the proven design from the Pilot Run. Which should never have got here because the details were worked out in Beta Testing.
I sure hope those guys making parts in China are following exacting instructions, if they are designing PCBs, rather than making them from GH's design, I fear for the worst. That design should have been 'locked down' and proven to be easy to build by the procedures specified and reliable in service before it went to production. At least that's the way I was trained to play this game.
So I don't see it as an engineering failure.......they were never given the time/system to do their job. They're now playing catch up ball. With very high stakes. No pressure there.
Hopefully it'll get going somehow. Often, once started, it's much easier to keep them moving than it ever was to get moving?
And then we can see how it meets those claims in the real world.
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