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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Engineer here.  You might never get rich being an engineer. But there is such joy in having a job that conforms to the laws of physics. Even the biggest BS manager/sales person/lawyer can’t get you to make too much up. [/quote]

I used to think like this, but came to the realization that the value is not in the engineering, but in the idea that led to the engineering. In other words, the value of the original iPhone's touch screen isn't the engineering to realize the touchscreen itself, but the idea about the touchscreen and how it should function. You can call the people that come up with those ideas "BS manager", laugh at the sales guys, but there's a reason they make more money than you. I say this as someone with not one but two engineering degrees. [/quote]

Uh, every engineer in the word would known a touch screen is better, and that resistive touch screens were horrible.

Engineer built the capacitive touch screen to address that idea, and Palm or Android were right on the cusp of deploying products when iPhone came out.

Marketing for iPhones is amazing; but it is also the stellar engineering which makes it stable and high performing.

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My point is, the requirements don't come from engineers. So when you say "stable" and "high performing", the underlying specifications that defines these parameters were provided by "BS Managers". Sure a competent touch screen engineer would know what state of the art is, but choosing to use capacitive over resistive is largely driven by product design, not engineering. The fluidity and responsiveness of Apple's implementation was also again driven by product design. Steve Jobs told his engineers to make it fluid and responsive, not the otherway around. Another way to look at it is that Apple certainly did not have a lock on engineering talent. There is nothing Apple could technically achieve from an engineering perspective that Samsung, Nokia, or Palm could not. The difference is in the product design, not engineering capability. Yes, Apple engineering is beautifully done, but that's not where the value of an Apple product lies. [/quote]

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