Monday, March 11, 2002
Quality Control -- What Are We Missing?
Posted by Tycho Morgan in "ARTICLE" @ 06:51 PM
http://articles.pocketnow.com/content.cgi?db=articles&id=65
The good people of pocketnow.com, have posted an article concerning all of the quality control issues that plague the current crop of Pocket PCs, including several solutions for dealing with Pocket PC quality control issues. I particularly like the first of the suggestions for dealing with these problems:
"Let's stop using flaws as ammunition in the "mine's better than yours" wars.
It happens from time to time, on every Pocket PC-related site. Usually it begins with a question of which Pocket PC is "the best." Eventually it takes on the distinguished air of the "trash-talk" preceding a World Wrestling Foundation "event" or, perhaps worse, the presidential debates. I'm horrifyingly certain that I'll see some of the things I mentioned above in a future war of the words, most of them have been seen already. The problem with debates where people spend their time talking about how bad the other person's Pocket PC is is that it does nothing to correct these issues and it gives the impression that we're just trying to get the least execrable of machines."
<rant>May I be as bold as to suggest we end "my device is better than your device, and is better then that other device over there" type of discussions. Truth be told, it doesn't really matter, and despite the quality control issues, and other varying specifications, all of the current Pocket PCs are almost exactly the same anyway. </rant>
The good people of pocketnow.com, have posted an article concerning all of the quality control issues that plague the current crop of Pocket PCs, including several solutions for dealing with Pocket PC quality control issues. I particularly like the first of the suggestions for dealing with these problems:
"Let's stop using flaws as ammunition in the "mine's better than yours" wars.
It happens from time to time, on every Pocket PC-related site. Usually it begins with a question of which Pocket PC is "the best." Eventually it takes on the distinguished air of the "trash-talk" preceding a World Wrestling Foundation "event" or, perhaps worse, the presidential debates. I'm horrifyingly certain that I'll see some of the things I mentioned above in a future war of the words, most of them have been seen already. The problem with debates where people spend their time talking about how bad the other person's Pocket PC is is that it does nothing to correct these issues and it gives the impression that we're just trying to get the least execrable of machines."
<rant>May I be as bold as to suggest we end "my device is better than your device, and is better then that other device over there" type of discussions. Truth be told, it doesn't really matter, and despite the quality control issues, and other varying specifications, all of the current Pocket PCs are almost exactly the same anyway. </rant>
