In my past blogs, when asked if the new designs would fix the RROD, I said they may, but that often when designs change for any reason, new defects are either created or exposed. At that time, it was too early to tell. With this product, I'm not surprised by this. It may not be the last one either.
I also wrote about how MS continues to use monopoly dollars from Windows to subsidize Xbox, which was always intended to preserve and extend the Windows monopoly into the living r...
I don't care who you like. I was spot on with this segue into pop culture. I guess the MS paid lurkers don't have a sense of humor. They are just gonna pop a bubble on anyone who disses their daddy.
That's it pal! You tell that turd who's boss!
Who's paying you to censor these posts? My post on this article is gone, as are almost 50 others. Great. Wait until I write about that, and get people looking for it. Your cred will go into the toilet, where it obviously belongs.
Now, you've angered me and incited me to do more. It's always a pain to be scrutinized, especially when you're culpable. Congrats!
If you all would just go back and read all of my previous interviews and posts, you'll see that I've explained this situation in detail. What MS knew, when they knew it, what laws they broke, who is getting screwed, why those folks are getting it in the rear, and where this is all likely to end up.
Just google xboxfounder and do some smart and selective reading. There were only a handful of original writings, copied and carried on dozens of additional sites each. So there is...
That MS is going to lisence HW that they make a profit on, so someone can sell it for less do you? That won't happen. They will only license HW that they aren't interested in making that they think would be good for teh business to have in the market.
Come on, think about it.
You knew the console was not ready to ship. You knew they had not done a good job of testing the design, and that the manufacturing test equipment was not reliable and had huge gaps in test coverage. It did not take a year to learn that there were huge problems. The factory and field failure rates were very high from day one, kept increasing over time, and the data indicated many problems, not just the design defect in the GPU that causes the RROD over time. They have made mistake after mis...
360 supply has been constrained the past few months due to quality issues limiting the numbers of "good" ODDs and GPUs. They think they have worked through those issues and could soon start shipping to full capacity of 180k per week. It remains to be seen what their demand truly is. I doubt it will be anywhere near that at this time of year.
I heard a month ago that they were planning to more than double capacity to 400k per week by the June/July time frame, to ful...
The next xbox is scheduled for a 2010 launch. For MS that always means a holiday launch. No way they'll finish early. What I don't know is if they'll discontinue 360 then, like they did with xbox.
That will depend on what kinds of problems vs profits they are having by then. Although, they don't even have enogh resources to sustain one console at a time. They'd really have to build the org by then to sustain 360 and the next gen at the same time.
Ever wonder where the inspiration for the xbox logo came from? Check my glyph. We all had a good laugh when I found this in early '00.
Sounds like yet another MS induced Tourette's experience...
Xbox 360 capacity is 180k units per week. They sold less than 1.5 weeks worth of production last month. They can, will and have airshipped units as needed at many times during their console ventures.
So, MS: what happened to all that capacity? Are you using it to make up for shortages of repair capacity, a spike in returns, or is there some othert problem in your supply chain? Another catastrophic defect perhaps, that limited the number of boxes you could build?
MS has not much to gain and very much to lose by doing this. It's going to be another PR nightmare for them unless they do something ethical, like place large and obvious signage by every HD display explaining the reasons that the drive is so cheap, and what limited value it will have to the consumer in the future.
I hope they were just floating a trial balloon, and after reading all the negative customer reactions and thinking about this, change any plan that takes advantage ...
If that were true, then there wouldn't be such a high repeat failure rate within the first 90 days. Right now, that stands at 10%. Plus, the shell is the least expensive part of the console. Plastics and emi shields. Why replace 98% of the cost and not the other 2? So thet the customer gets a dirty, beat up chassis and the impression that they have someone elses used console? Yeah, that makes sense.
See how easy it is to use what you already know to determine when they ar...
1/2 at least, of the Xe units have been returned. 10% of Z/F have been returned. I have proof.
I have some data you all need to see.
He's spouting the MS line, w/o really understanding it. MS always puts someone up who is likable. That's also part of theor strategy. "don't hate me, i'm just a pretty girl". Shane doesn't know the difference between a resistor, register, or transistor.
And killed a baby in a house fire? MS response was that it was the users fault, and want the case dismissed. Shamefull. They knew for 2 years prior that XB1 caught on fire before they told their consumers.
I worked on that. But the part that really pissed me off was that Robie Bach delayed the implementation of the new power cord that would prevent this by 3 months because the solution became ready at holiday time, and he didn't want the negative press to affect holiday s...
The mobo and all other materials in the world change shape when exposed to thermal cycles. The initial quality of the lead free joints, the quality of the parts supplied (flatness and sameness of size of the BGA solder balls), and the fitness of the board finish and solder paste homogenaety all play significant roles.
On XB1, Intel made sure the design was manufacturable and had suffiecient margin. On 360, when MS took over those tasks to "save costs", we had no on...
As a result of Dean Takahashi's article from a few months ago.