[time-nuts] Problems with Garmin - maybe we should cut them a little slack

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Fri Dec 31 21:06:25 UTC 2010


Not only MS. Any product whose cost ofd production is trivial compared to
selling price.

Look at Coke...  it's 99+% water. In some places it sells for $2/pint.

-John

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>
> Hmmm, sounds like the Microsoft model.
>
> What did you expect for $100?
>
>
> On 12/31/2010 12:49 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>>> Well, I won't rant back at you, Dick, but your expectations are way off
>>> base.  GPS cartographers have to designate billions (yes, billions) of
>>> addresses and the fact that they miss a few scarcely justifies a
>>> backhand
>>> brushoff as "shoddy work."
>>
>> Look at it another way:
>>
>>   They are producing one product for 10s of millions of customers. The
>> reproduction costs are trivial, so they have hundreds of millions of
>> dollars to get one product right!
>>
>>> Can you have a product of this size and complexity that is completely
>>> error free.  No.  No matter how hard you try, the answer remains...no.
>>> (References on stochastic processes available on request.)
>>>
>>> Can you have a product with* fewer* errors?  Of course.  Can you have
>>> it
>>> for eighty bucks.  Nope.
>>
>> The $80 is for one copy. Try near a $1,000,000,000 for the digital map
>> of
>> the USA.
>>
>>> Be a good capitalist and take your choice.
>>
>>
>> -John
>>
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