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Originally Posted by alex_d
To call it "malicious" is inappropriate. I'm just saying Sony looked at stuff like the iPod and though this was best, and that we should try hard to convince it otherwise.
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Okay, I guess I overread the intended strength of your earlier statement:
"The only reason that Sony might have is a disgusting view that dumbing down an already simple function will help it sell more Readers." It happens sometimes with this sort of all-text discussion medium, sorry 'bout that.
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Originally Posted by alex_d
If you are not convinced that the programming effort to implement all five search features is insignifant for a product like this and hardly even factors into the decision...
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The real factor here, as I see it, isn't so much how significant a feature is compared to an overall project, nor even how significant a job that feature is in a vacuum (though that's closer
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available resources (including time and schedules, etc.) compare to the overall project.
In any case, I offered that as a single example of a possibility of what might have stopped them, not as any sort of a difinitive answer.
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Originally Posted by alex_d
... then I guess we'll just have to disagree.
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That's no problem, it happens all the time around here -- there are just too many perspectives for them all to line up. What I like about the place is the (mainly) easy-going attitude when folks do disagree. Folks get a bit excited on occasion, but mostly it's remarkably respectful
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Originally Posted by alex_d
Btw, have you had any programming experience?
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A bit, I've been a full-time programmer for almost six years now, and a part time programmer for about three-and-a-half before that. Before that was just dabbling, really.
Some of my personal primary programming philosophy includes: make it easy; if the computer can do it for me then I should let it; and things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.
