[Leica] Re: Leica Firmware

[dnygr at cshore.com (dnygr)]

It's all fine and good to meet deadlines, but it also has a cost when the 
product sucks, just as not meeting deadlines does, and customers go 
elsewhere. 

In repsect to Leica, they've been beaten to market for a long time. When you 
think of digital, you don't think of Leica. You do think quality. That is 
what they market. They would be foolist to tarnish that image with 
run-of-mill software procedures. 

I think their greatest risk is come out with a product that flops. Leica 
means quality. If their digital R is preceived as half-baked, they will 
suffer big time. 

We all know of SW companies whose products suck. They don't even produce 
software that is compatible with their other software. 

It's not great to miss deadlines, it's worse when you produce a product with 
the reputation of a Rolls Royce and your new car functions like an 
Edsel--that ill-fated Ford car that was dead on arrival.

Let's hope that the digital R is a Rolls Royce. And let's hope that the 
second edition of it is not just focused on fixing bugs, but upgrading the 
quality of an already fine product. I hope that's the case.

Doug Nygren

 

 
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