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> Why should the industry accept as inevitable, even push forward aggressively, on the paradigm that every single device (even non computing ones) should be net
by MattGaiser 5y ago
> Why should the industry accept as inevitable, even push forward aggressively, on the paradigm that every single device (even non computing ones) should be network connected 24x7?
A major software defect would be hard to repair otherwise.
- akie 5y agoA major software defect would be hard to repair or introduce otherwise.
- smarx007 5y agoYes, your statement is correct but I disagree with what you are implying. Please remember that I am the owner of the devices I bought and whether to repair any defect in MY devices should be my decision.
- Syonyk 5y agoThen maybe it should have been tested first. Back when Consumer Reports was testing the Model 3 and found that the brakes sucked compared to other cars, Tesla overnighted them an OTA update and fixed the problem, and everyone seemed focused on how amazing it was that Tesla could do this, and how dealership visits will be a thing of the past, etc. Very few people asked how they managed to ship a car with both defective brakes out of the box, that were easily fixed with a software update. That's the sort of thing automakers used to test, rather extensively, before sending cars out for testing and use. I'm old enough to remember when games shipped complete, not "broken and we'll patch it later." I'm not sure the changes have been an improvement. I'm aware that modern cars ship with something like 150M lines of code, and that nobody could possibly be expected to make sure they're all correct. My solution of "Maybe we shouldn't ship gigabytes of untested and often broken software in a car?" doesn't seem to be very popular.