• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I highly doubt they used those cables maliciously knowing they’d go out right when the warranty expired. It was probably a cost thing, and they later realized (too late to fix it) during production sometime that the cables were a warranty issue.

    Engineers don’t do thing maliciously with their designs. They pick things based on cost, and probably even raised the cable length as a risk/concern during the design and testing phase, and were overruled by the bean counters.

    It’s happened to me before.

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      Even in your defense, you point out that someone at the company made the explict choice to sell devices with defective cabling. At no point did he blame the engineers who designed it for that choice.

      That’s a shit company that doesnt deserve anyone’s support, regardless if it was “engineers” or “bean counters” that opted to continue to sell what they knew was a defective product.

      The fact that it happened over and over with multiple devices means it’s a culture issue with the company, not a one off mistake.

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          6 months ago

          Intentionally selling a defective product without informing you customers beforehand is malicious, no matter the justification.

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            6 months ago

            I’m fine not having this conversation anymore. I just gave a perspective from an engineer. No need to continue shitting on me. I’m not even defending the practice.

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              I haven’t shit on you at all. Re- read my comments and point out one negative thing I’e said about you or engineers.

              Ive only talked about buisness ethics, and the pervasive negatives that come from misleading customers. If you feel that’s a dig on you, some self reflection might be warranted.