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But why did they want to remove The Big Red Button? Sorry if that’s a dumb question.

• lazide 4y ago
  Unit cost probably.
• elteto 4y ago
  It’s not really important to the story but it sounds like someone with a lot of power and a knack for micromanaging got an idea into his head and wanted to see it through. The motivations can be many, including non-evil but fundamentally misguided ones, such as saving some $$ on the BOM or perhaps something as silly as making the UI more “uniform” with all touch screen interactions.
• SentinelLdnma 4y ago
  Not at all a dumb question. But the answer will be. The Big Boss Man hated the way it looked. He once spent 30 minutes telling a graphics designer what a worthless piece of sh* he was where everyone on the floor could hear. Corporate equivalent of a terrorist.
  • defrost 4y ago
    > There was a Big Red Button acting as a physical power cut-out. > Request was to remove the physical button and rely only on a software (touch screen). Death was a remote harm, but moderate injury / user stuck in device / panic attack was plausible. Good on you for not removing it. I work sometimes in mineral processing (above ground | below ground) with conveyor belts, crushers, etc. Big easy physical power cutouts are everywhere: Conveyors have "rip cords" running alongside, pull them and you can stop a 30 tonne/hour conveyor maybe before someone drawn into the rollers is crushed to death or maimed. Crushers | screens | most big equipment has single OFF knife switch with "gang plates" that take multiple padlocks - if you and two others work inside a crusher you each put a lock (three in total) through the gang plates and nobody gets to restart the machin until everybody is out and has removed their padlock. Big physical switches save lives.
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