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except you can't add a usb port via a software update

• ugh 17y ago
  Your point being? I don’t see how that could change the review – it seems pretty impossible to me to review software based on what’s possible, not on what’s there.
  • dagw 17y ago
    Really? I've seen plenty of reviews that contain some variation of the line "...but X should be easy to fix in the next firmware/software update, and if they do that then..."
    • ugh 17y ago
      You can write that in a review (’coz it’s true), I just don’t think you would be a very good reviewer if it influenced your verdict. I just looked at Engadget’s iPad review again and they heavily scold the iPad for lacking multitasking – mentioning that the fix should be easy sounds much more like a criticism than a defense. If the iPad doesn’t get any leeway for lacking software features the Joojoo shouldn’t get any leeway for its lacking UI.
      • dagw 17y ago
        The amount of leeway one gives should be related to how easy the problem is to fix. Fundamental problems with the hardware should not be judged equal to easily fixed software bugs when counting pros and cons.
• raganwald 17y ago
  And I have very little faith that any company shipping a crappy UI will get their act together and ship an upgrade that "fixes" it. Microsoft needed more than a decade. Choppy video, maybe that can be fixed. But the crappy UI is probably forever.