I managed from the vendor side the rollout of new products to the old Bell Atlantic Verizon wire telco network. Nothing reached the customer network unless it successfully navigated the Verizon test lab. The lab was a stand alone baby telephone network that was lorded over by veteran hard hats. I found that that breed of telco engineer was not duplicated in the then baby Verizon internet side. Mistakes happened, but were limited in customer reach.
That's been the story for some time now: short term decisions for shareholder profit > long term sustainability and quality. Boeing was run by engineers - now it's not, and all that matters is the bottom-line.
I'm sure you could have given more examples of shoddy industry practices. I think about half of Microsoft updates are to back out of previously botched updates. My Vanguard account software is balky at the moment. My Google devices never work the way I expect they should for very long but that's probably because I'm fundamentally incompatible with Google.
I'm sure you could have given more examples of shoddy industry practices. I think about half of Microsoft updates are to back out of previously botched updates. My Vanguard account software is balky at the moment. My Google devices never work the way I expect they should for very long but that's probably because I'm fundamentally incompatible with Google.
I managed from the vendor side the rollout of new products to the old Bell Atlantic Verizon wire telco network. Nothing reached the customer network unless it successfully navigated the Verizon test lab. The lab was a stand alone baby telephone network that was lorded over by veteran hard hats. I found that that breed of telco engineer was not duplicated in the then baby Verizon internet side. Mistakes happened, but were limited in customer reach.
That's been the story for some time now: short term decisions for shareholder profit > long term sustainability and quality. Boeing was run by engineers - now it's not, and all that matters is the bottom-line.
I'm sure you could have given more examples of shoddy industry practices. I think about half of Microsoft updates are to back out of previously botched updates. My Vanguard account software is balky at the moment. My Google devices never work the way I expect they should for very long but that's probably because I'm fundamentally incompatible with Google.
I'm sure you could have given more examples of shoddy industry practices. I think about half of Microsoft updates are to back out of previously botched updates. My Vanguard account software is balky at the moment. My Google devices never work the way I expect they should for very long but that's probably because I'm fundamentally incompatible with Google.