It's the software stupid! Hopefully everyone is starting to realize that products are now the combination of beautiful asthetics, solid engineering, and elegant software development. There is no modern product that is not reliant on software or firmware today.
I am sure there are plenty of old school people who lament this new world older. Before good engineering was mechanical. Now that's only half the story. There is good and bad to everything, so software will cause some problems, as with the recent spate of Toyota issues. On the flipside, relying more on software features than mechanical features has brought incredible usability, comfort and reliabilty to products today.
As consumers we are looking at the products this way. As product developers, we need to understand this: beautifully combine hardware, engineering and software together. Don't be just good at one. If you don't you will lose. Even the car, usually a gearheads heaven, has been reduced to plugging a computer into it to diagnose and even fix problems. From The New York Times: The Dozens of Computers That Make Modern Cars Go (and Stop) Even basic vehicles have at least 30 microprocessors, controlling functions like braking, cruise control and entertainment systems. http://s.nyt.com/u/eGP
I am sure there are plenty of old school people who lament this new world older. Before good engineering was mechanical. Now that's only half the story. There is good and bad to everything, so software will cause some problems, as with the recent spate of Toyota issues. On the flipside, relying more on software features than mechanical features has brought incredible usability, comfort and reliabilty to products today.
As consumers we are looking at the products this way. As product developers, we need to understand this: beautifully combine hardware, engineering and software together. Don't be just good at one. If you don't you will lose. Even the car, usually a gearheads heaven, has been reduced to plugging a computer into it to diagnose and even fix problems. From The New York Times: The Dozens of Computers That Make Modern Cars Go (and Stop) Even basic vehicles have at least 30 microprocessors, controlling functions like braking, cruise control and entertainment systems. http://s.nyt.com/u/eGP
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