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Meta (Quest 2/3/Pro, Meta Portal), Google (Pixel, home automation hardware, much more), Amazon (Echo, Kindle, Ring), and Microsoft (Surface lineup and much more
by Philpax 3y ago
Meta (Quest 2/3/Pro, Meta Portal), Google (Pixel, home automation hardware, much more), Amazon (Echo, Kindle, Ring), and Microsoft (Surface lineup and much more) all manufacture hardware.
- awinter-py 3y agoah point taken though I assume some of these are made by OEMs
- baby_souffle 3y ago> though I assume some of these are made by OEMs They are. The "no, _they're_ the idiots" rivalry between engineer / manufacturing is almost as old as time. A design team almost never gets to just "hand off" the files to the manufacturing side without some amount of issue/fix iteration happening. It's not just the physical engineering of a device, though. If the $thing that is responsible for QA/Test or even programming keys into $widget goes down, the factory has to stop and that's _expensive_ so you get the guy that designed it out there to fix it _asap_.