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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by Lio on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:35AM (#35724993)
Something missing here is that the Tier 1 supplier will take one look at the spec and know that latency hasn't been mentioned or considered.

They will not tell the customer this because either the customer doesn't care, so why waste time and resources

...or when the customer realises they will open a Change Request to fix the issue. Change Requests are how you make an actual profit on unprofitable, low-balled contract and probably gain an extension on the unachievable timeline agreed to win the bid in the first place.

The "customer" is the person that signs the contract not the user of the product. They probably don't care that it's a pig to use. It just has to look OK in a presentation to their boss (...who isn't going to ever use it either).

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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature by the_overseer on Thursday April 27, 2023 @05:17AM (#35725367)
From what I observed product owners know that the system sucks and it's laggy. They also know that the OEM management only keeps repeating "cheap, cheap, cheap", "with a renewed focust on costs" and other sayings like these.
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