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I used to work for a primarily-hardware company, writing software, and we suffered from much the same politics and software quality problems you describe. There
by mirkules 12y ago
I used to work for a primarily-hardware company, writing software, and we suffered from much the same politics and software quality problems you describe. There are really two issues at play:
1) Hardware companies have to employ the waterfall model. Agile is not even a word in their vocabulary. This is because once a product is on the shelves or in the customers' hands, it is infinitely more expensive to recall and fix products. When all you have is the waterfall hammer, everything looks like a nail.
2) Culture plays a huge part. Senior management "knows best" despite your best efforts to convince them otherwise.
My boss once described it as "a huge ship that sails down the river. Once the ship is on its way, it is really hard to change direction or stop it".
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- bashinator 12y agoThis is why the Internet of Things terrifies me. You think these clowns wanna be responsible for promptly releasing security updates for the lifetime of every piece of hardware they've ever shipped?
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- brave-new 12y agoIn the end the clowns will only ship the hardware. That is Internet of Things IMHO will go through the same evolution as the PC industry.
- pjc50 12y agoMore likely the mobile industry: no, you can't upgrade your ancient Android. You'll have to buy new IoT devices every year and throw the ones with security holes in the landfill.
- pjmlp 12y agoThis is because, the guys calling the shots are still the old telecommunication OEMs. Although telecommunications always had a very close relationship with the software industry, they see the customers in a different way. Since the early days they would rather ship new phones than offer upgrades. Nokia was probably the only exception, in the models that weren't tainted with mobile operator firmware. It only works for Apple, because they managed to get those guys out of the way. But they got their lesson and surely will not let others get away with it.
- gsnedders 12y agoGiven the build date of the kernel on my phone and the publicly disclosed security bugs in the kernel fixed in later releases, I'd be amazed if any Android version (yes, including current ones!) is free of known security holes.