Hmmm, sounds like the Microsoft model.
What did you expect for $100?
On 12/31/2010 12:49 PM, J. Forster wrote:
Well, I won't rant back at you, Dick, but your expectations are way off
base. GPS cartographers have to designate billions (yes, billions) of
addresses and the fact that they miss a few scarcely justifies a backhand
brushoff as "shoddy work."
Look at it another way:
They are producing one product for 10s of millions of customers. The
reproduction costs are trivial, so they have hundreds of millions of
dollars to get one product right!
Can you have a product of this size and complexity that is completely
error free. No. No matter how hard you try, the answer remains...no.
(References on stochastic processes available on request.)
Can you have a product with* fewer* errors? Of course. Can you have it
for eighty bucks. Nope.
The $80 is for one copy. Try near a $1,000,000,000 for the digital map of
the USA.
Be a good capitalist and take your choice.
-John
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