From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Someone said they thought it would cost $0.50 per body to support
the TTL metering. That may not seem like much to you, but I've seen weeks
of debate in an engineering/marketing meeting to get $0.01 more cost out
of a component intended for production. It is particularly the case that
this kind of trade-off goes on for the low-end products because profit
margins on low-end products are very very low.
But it's particularly this kind of stupidity that lowers profit margins.
Likely thousands or tens of thousands of dollars in productive time wasted
to save pennies that will never be recouped.
Tom C.
