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I don't know much about the margins and volumes of this sort of industrial equipment, but, are they so low that nobody can hire a skilled team of software engin

I don't know much about the margins and volumes of this sort of industrial equipment, but, are they so low that nobody can hire a skilled team of software engineers to write proper code for this stuff? The UX is always trash, the security is non-existent, the smart-components are always low-spec and low quality (displays?). Is adding £5, £10, £100 to the cost of a unit to do it right going to hurt _that_ much? Genuinely, I don't understand. Surely one of these things costs at least 5 figures and are bought in multiples of tens or hundreds?

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csours 3y ago
> The UX is always trash Split agency problem - the person who buys it is not the person who uses it. (I am not a fish - Seth Godin) > nobody can hire a skilled team of software engineers to write proper code for this stuff? You see a huge company from the outside. From the inside it's a small team[0] in a cost center[1] who are always overworked. 0. https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-long-shadow-of-checks/ https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-long-shadow-of-ch... 1. https://swizec.com/blog/the-3-budgets/ https://swizec.com/blog/the-3-budgets/ ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38851051 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38851051
- AnimalMuppet 3y ago
  It's a small team in a company that still thinks it's a wrench company, not a software company.