[time-nuts] Problems with Garmin - maybe we should cut them a little slack

[J. Forster]

> 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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