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https://youtu.be/aRrDsbUdY_k?t=5m23s https://youtu.be/aRrDsbUdY_k?t=5m23s http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/20/3363914/wrong-turn-apple-ios-6-maps-phone-5-buggy-complaints http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/20/3363914/wrong-turn-apple-i... http://www.dailytech.com/Lockheeds+F22+Raptor+Gets+Zapped+by+International+Date+Line/article6225.htm http://www.dailytech.com/Lockheeds+F22+Raptor+Gets+Zapped+by... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_(CG-48) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_(CG-48) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

striking 10y ago
The first one isn't a product that can be sold but rather a systemic failure. The rest of them didn't kill anyone. iOS 6 Maps was definitely a pretty big mistake, but Google Maps was available the majority of the time it was broken. I guess I can let you have that one, since it was pretty appallingly bad and because not everyone knew you could download the actually good Maps app. The next two examples were unfortunate mistakes where a tiny bug caused a massive failure, and these things happen sometimes. They didn't ship a broken product, just a product with a worse-than-expected bug. I feel like that's understandable when your target platform is a damned jet airplane or ship, and your underlying platform is some complicated 35 "Intel i960" mess running Ada[1] or 27 Pentium Pro computers all running Windows NT 4.0.[2] I'm not sure what you expected. And yes, the loss of the Mars Orbiter was awful, and yes the error was noticed by two different people who said something about it.[3] I think this might be the most applicable scenario to your point, where a broken product was shipped broken on purpose because of stupid time pressure. Two of five isn't too bad, but it hardly shows a pattern of shipping broken stuff for profit. Sometimes people want profit, but many times people make mistakes. 1: http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/print/volume-12/issue-5/news/f-22-avionics-designers-rely-on-obsolescent-electronics-but-plan-for-future-upgrades.html http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/print/volume-12/is..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i960 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i960 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_(CG-48)#Smart_ship_testbed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_(CG-48)#Smart_shi... 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...
- partycoder 10y ago
  You can have a bad traffic accident if your maps app tells you to enter a street with opposing traffic. Now, true. Mars Climate Observer didn't kill anyone. But to build that equipment the government had put money away from health and education, which saves people and prevents violence, and that indirectly kills people. It's not a closed system.

striking 10y ago

The first one isn't a product that can be sold but rather a systemic failure. The rest of them didn't kill anyone. iOS 6 Maps was definitely a pretty big mistake, but Google Maps was available the majority of the time it was broken. I guess I can let you have that one, since it was pretty appallingly bad and because not everyone knew you could download the actually good Maps app. The next two examples were unfortunate mistakes where a tiny bug caused a massive failure, and these things happen sometimes. They didn't ship a broken product, just a product with a worse-than-expected bug. I feel like that's understandable when your target platform is a damned jet airplane or ship, and your underlying platform is some complicated 35 "Intel i960" mess running Ada[1] or 27 Pentium Pro computers all running Windows NT 4.0.[2] I'm not sure what you expected. And yes, the loss of the Mars Orbiter was awful, and yes the error was noticed by two different people who said something about it.[3] I think this might be the most applicable scenario to your point, where a broken product was shipped broken on purpose because of stupid time pressure. Two of five isn't too bad, but it hardly shows a pattern of shipping broken stuff for profit. Sometimes people want profit, but many times people make mistakes. 1: http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/print/volume-12/issue-5/news/f-22-avionics-designers-rely-on-obsolescent-electronics-but-plan-for-future-upgrades.html http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/print/volume-12/is..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i960 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i960 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_(CG-48)#Smart_ship_testbed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_(CG-48)#Smart_shi... 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...

partycoder 10y ago
You can have a bad traffic accident if your maps app tells you to enter a street with opposing traffic. Now, true. Mars Climate Observer didn't kill anyone. But to build that equipment the government had put money away from health and education, which saves people and prevents violence, and that indirectly kills people. It's not a closed system.