It's all about next quarter profits and keeping stock market investors happy.
Bean counters vs. the engineers/etc.
All the rest is PR/lip service.
Paul
The best way to get bang-for-buck, stay informed and keeping up with the market.
Never know when the bean counters might let one fall thru the cracks.
How do we learn this? Unfortunately school of hard knocks, forums like this to share experiences and keeping an open mind.
Remember consumer R&D is still the best engineering the manufactures have.
Paul