A disturbing trend I have been noticing in the last 4 years or so is the general decline in the quality of hardware components released to the market.
Quality may be too broad a term; functionality may be a better fit for my point. Electrically, I believe component quality has improved. It is in the firmware and drivers, the final implementation, that I see the decline. The consumer’s perception of quality is the total package; why it won’t work makes little difference. If any piece of the functionality puzzle is missing, the whole product is perceived as defective.
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