Wayne Parham Messages: 18786 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
I'm so with you on that, Barry. I often remark how newer devices tend to sacrifice reliability for features. It's like people these days are OK with phones that drop-out in the middle of calls or lose the connection entirely. Lose power in your home and your land line stops working. But that's OK, use the cell. Hopefully it will work, and not drop-out too.
Fifty years ago, people in the USA were accustomed to having a phone network that almost never went down. It was the most reliable network I've ever seen.
Now days, phones suck. But you can play games on 'em. Provided the download works.
Same seems to be true of almost every other consumer digital electronics product.
Don't get me wrong - I love all the new tech - it's just that I'm amazed how unreliable some stuff is. As an engineer, I never sacrifice quality and reliability for added features. Add the features but keep the reliability or re-think the features and don't introduce them until they can be made robust.
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