Mike Mullarkey wrote: > The Motorola MOTOTRBO repeater is yes a TDMA product. Keep in mind it is > the first release offering and there will be many changes with firmware > regarding these products. How about a TDMA product that will have the
Hi Mike. So many products are this way these days... "It's released, but it doesn't do everything it COULD DO!" It's like they're marketing hype and hope, not products. Personally, I'm getting tired of it. FINISH the product, THEN bring it to market. Work out the bugs in your lab, not on my users. This is not just radios... pretty much everything is marketed this way nowadays, but radios and radio systems are particularly prone to it. "PLEASE BETA TEST OUR PRODUCT FOR US! WE CAN'T AFFORD PROPER REAL-WORLD TESTS!" <-- That's what all of this screams to me, anyway. I agree that manufacturers are moving the right way into having the ability to flash-upgrade rigs and infrastructure (repeaters) in the field, but it's too tempting for project/product managers to ship things too soon when they have the option of just following up with a CD and a flash upgrade a couple of months later. They need to temper that mentality. It's already rampant in the desktop computing world... do we really want to be "patching" our radios every week/month too? I would recommend against the use of this "hype" statement about how wonderful it "might" be someday with the right flash upgrade -- that marketing strategy is starting to have serious backlash for those of us that have to patch and maintain this stuff... our opinion is starting to become that manufacturers can't seem to ship anything but broken CRAP. So, offering us yet another device/system we have to continually upgrade/patch... isn't going to be a good way to convince us it's worth buying... The manufacturers are breaking something intangible and important by starting down this path of neverending upgrades/patches to load into their products... Trust. But, they haven't figured that out yet. Nate WY0X
