What he said 😊 Gary -----Original Message----- From: "EricJ" <[email protected]> Sent: ‎7/‎06/‎2016 4:03 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] New products
With that, the thread effectively closed for me. Nobody has said it better. Thanks, Len. Eric KE6US On 6/6/2016 10:18 AM, [email protected] wrote: > As a developer of both hardware and software products that use touch screens > I have mixed feelings. > > My number one gripe with soft environments is the tendency to continually > modify the environment and jam more and more functionality into the same > footprint. This either needs to be done with width or depth, take your > pick. Both Apple and Windows are horrible abusers. Every new version of > their software requires users to hunt down functions that have been moved or > crammed down. Functions that were originally intuitive are now obfuscated > in the name of progress. Lack of consistency is extremely frustrating for > most users. > > Today because of the ease of soft environments it seems that companies feel > compelled to continually bring a "new look" to each software revision of > their website or product. How many of you think Yahoo scored a home run > with NEO? In my opinion NEO is an absolute disaster. But corporate egos > won't allow users out. How would you like someone mucking with your beloved > radio in the name of pretty progress. I'll take consistency over pretty and > modern every time. I'm buying a radio, I don't want an iPhone clone, or an > Icom clone, I want my KX3 to look and exactly like the KX3 I bought. I > trust the engineers at Elecraft to make acceptable and necessary upgrades > for functionality. I also trust that they are not going to ruin a great > radio in the name of glitter.. > > It has been pointed out previously in this thread that all of Elecraft's > radios can be easily connected to a computer for computer control. Not > everything in the world needs to be integrated, and often doing so creates > compromises that are much more difficult to live with and limit the lifetime > of a product. I'm tickled pink with my Elecraft products and don't feel the > need for them to emulate anyone else to keep me as a customer! We shouldn't > be compelled to buy a radio every two years like we do with cell phones. My > expectation is to buy a product that will function for many years, and > possibly a decade or more. I would rather have multiple Elecraft products > rather than one that pretends to be all things to all people. > > 73 > > len > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
