Custom ROM Developers- just my 2cents

[shaun0207]

Originally Posted by TC1

Actually, WM6.1 will be equivalent to a service pack (with new features also) for XP or Vista... meaning Micro$oft will have learned a lot of hard lessons over the past year and fixed a lot of the bugs. IMO, it'll help immensely to give us a more stable OS.

My question is... how come this wasnt done before releasing WM6? There are so many problems with WM6 from resource hogging, to memory leak, issues the alarm. Wasnt this fully tested before being released? I had WM5 on my Moto Q and I was upset that they werent giving a WM6 upgrade to my 4moth old Q. So I switched to the Mogul for the full keyboard and WM6. Not to mention the touchscreen. It seems like MS really dropped the ball.

[TC1]

Originally Posted by shaun0207

My question is... how come this wasnt done before releasing WM6? There are so many problems with WM6 from resource hogging, to memory leak, issues the alarm. Wasnt this fully tested before being released? I had WM5 on my Moto Q and I was upset that they werent giving a WM6 upgrade to my 4moth old Q. So I switched to the Mogul for the full keyboard and WM6. Not to mention the touchscreen. It seems like MS really dropped the ball.

I'm not picking on you Shaun, but your statement could be made about EVERY OS ever released by Microsoft (or others)... "How come they didn't find this bug... or this one?" XP had problems. Vista has problems. Win95 had problems when first released. Etc, etc.

Like I previously said, regression testing is a mind blowing task. Unless you have a totally locked down platform, ie, you control BOTH the hardware and the software (like Apple), it's next to impossible to catch all the bugs. Look at Apple, even though they do control everything they still have some bugs (but a lot less than the other OS platforms).

I'll give you a little insight to modern software development methodology: Even when we know there are bugs, we will still ship/release software based on market demands and the severity of the bugs. It's always a trade-off between cooking the software longer to get it near perfect, and actually releasing a product so you can make money and capture market share. Like I said, you can regression test until you are blue in the face, but then the law of diminishing returns kicks in and you start to lose $$$.

As a consumer, yes, you should be upset that something you paid for is buggy. But unfortunately it's just the nature of the beast.

[shaun0207]

Originally Posted by TC1

I'm not picking on you Shaun, but your statement could be made about EVERY OS ever released by Microsoft (or others)... "How come they didn't find this bug... or this one?" XP had problems. Vista has problems. Win95 had problems when first released. Etc, etc.

Like I previously said, regression testing is a mind blowing task. Unless you have a totally locked down platform, ie, you control BOTH the hardware and the software (like Apple), it's next to impossible to catch all the bugs. Look at Apple, even though they do control everything they still have some bugs (but a lot less than the other OS platforms).

I'll give you a little insight to modern software development methodology: Even when we know there are bugs, we will still ship/release software based on market demands and the severity of the bugs. It's always a trade-off between cooking the software longer to get it near perfect, and actually releasing a product so you can make money and capture market share. Like I said, you can regression test until you are blue in the face, but then the law of diminishing returns kicks in and you start to lose $$$.

As a consumer, yes, you should be upset that something you paid for is buggy. But unfortunately it's just the nature of the beast.

I dont feel picked on at all. You make a good point.