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petepete said:
Are you informing us some forum dashcam part hobbyist is able to help more than your own paid development team on a product that you ve invested heavily in ?
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If you want to find every conceivable way to missapply a product, put it in the hands of inexperience.

I'm "married" to a fee calculation workbook that includes another safeguard every week from colleagues who insert subtotals where they please and afterwards are happy to blame me for their errors.

We performed a sucessful power loss test for a back-up system and that failed the next weekend during an real interuption. The owner made a change to an item that unknowingly was served a panel outside of our test.

The lab in not part of the real world.
 
petepete said:
All sounds very noble and productive but.....

Are you informing us some forum dashcam part hobbyist is able to help more than your own paid development team on a product that you ve invested heavily in ?

And if you re relying on this for development rather than your own team of skills - could this be why there is so much disappointment, as high as 45% on an unnamed product !
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Maybe you posted that when you missed your morning coffee but had you done some research, you'd have seen most products even from bigger and established brands uncover issues when they go out to public.
That includes even the billion dollar companies/products like iPhone, Samsung galaxy etc...
And you probably have heard of recalls on Toyota, Honda, Ford and so on and on and on...

If inside workers were enough to produce flawless products, then we always would have perfect products and no issue ever on anything.

And you also didn't notice firmware and even hardware updates on so many dashcams here after we used them and send feedback to manufactures, did you? 😱
 
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Sunny said:
Do some research and you'll see most products even from bigger and established brands uncover issues when they go out to public.
That includes even the billion dollar companies like iPhone, Samsung galaxy, Toyota, Honda and so on and on...
If inside workers were enough to produce flawless products, then we always would have perfect products and no issue ever on anything.
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as much as you'd love to it's impossible to find every issue before release, all you can do really is try and deal with whatever is needed as quickly and as professionally as possible to try and minimize any inconvenience
 
Dashmellow said:
I wonder if this has anything to do with why I have so much trouble operating the foot pedal that came with my computer?
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Stop calling old sewing machine a computer. 😀
 
Dashmellow said:
Somebody told me I should try rolling the computer foot pedal around on my desk using my hand instead of using it on the floor. 😉
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Young whipper snappers, what do they know?
 
Dashmellow said:
Somebody told me I should try rolling the computer foot pedal around on my desk using my hand instead of using it on the floor. 😉
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And you should also do this:

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Tell me if any lab tester was able to figure out CD drive can be used as cup holder? It was the public I tell you so the more reviewers, the more ways of finding product's use and limitations, whether good or bad. 😀
 
Speaking of "the hands of inexperience", I have an acquaintance who expressed an interest in purchasing a dash cam about 8 months ago after I showed him some footage along with the set-up in my vehicle. I then sent him a lengthy email with info and links to DCT, etc, etc.

So he called me up recently and said he was finally ready to buy a dash cam. He wanted my opinion on a Garmin product he was about to purchase that I'd never heard of that I discovered is an action cam that won't work at all as a dash cam. Apparently, he had never bothered to read the long email I sent him. One of the main things he expressed an interest in when I showed him my dash cams was GPS. When he called for advice about buying a dash cam he told me he no longer needs a dash cam with GPS since he already has a GPS in his truck.
 
jokiin said:
as much as you'd love to it's impossible to find every issue before release, all you can do really is try and deal with whatever is needed as quickly and as professionally as possible to try and minimize any inconvenience
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Exactly my point.
You can never simulate thousands or millions of testers compared to few employees.
Even in IT software releases that we work on that has quite a few automatic load testing software, it still comes out with bugs once it goes to production and users use it.
 
It's starting to look like the new Mobius FRP lens module may be a perfect example of this phenomenon.
 
Dashmellow said:
It's starting to look like the new Mobius FRP lens module may be a perfect example of this phenomenon.
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some conflicting reports about that one, I'd lean toward metal lens base being the superior solution and there may indeed be some people having issues with cameras used in the car environment which is much harder on the camera from a heat aspect than RC use, maybe something that didn't get enough consideration, maybe they'll change back, wait and see I guess
 
jokiin said:
some conflicting reports about that one, I'd lean toward metal lens base being the superior solution and there may indeed be some people having issues with cameras used in the car environment which is much harder on the camera from a heat aspect than RC use, maybe something that didn't get enough consideration, maybe they'll change back, wait and see I guess
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Time will tell, but so far it's been a fundamental change to the product line that's certainly had some unanticipated negative consequences.
 
they've generally been on the upward trend with improvements throughout the life of the product so it is I suppose a bit unexpected when they make a wrong choice (if this indeed is the case), it does seem with the C lens that they did choose a good lens and much has been made about how fussy the developers are with lens choice but they not have been so lucky with the lens base it seems, I hope it's something they address quickly as I think in the sub $100 price point it has been one of the only consistent performers that you could recommend to someone without it coming to bite you later
 
The Mobius is in a league by itself in many ways. I have the feeling that they'll be able to recover from this stumble, whatever the actual problem may be. I think the thing that has surprised everyone and that could make the issue more damaging and difficult to recover from for the developer is the simultaneous across the board switch to the FRP module base in all three available lens focal lengths coupled with a change to the case design to accommodate the new modules. Of course, this assumes that the FRP module is indeed the cause of the focus problem. It could turn out to be one of those,"what were we thinking?!" experiences .
 
yeah I do hope they're having a serious look at it, I appreciate that the majority of their customer base is the RC crowd and likely unaffected anyway but it would be a shame not to see it working well for car use
 
I wonder how the sales breakdown works out between the RC users, the dash cam users and the action cam users. By now, it seems that the Mobius as a dash cam has likely become a decent enough chunk of the business that it can't be ignored or disposed of. Action cams are also often subjected to temperature extremes in many situations and I know it is fairly popular for that use as well for certain types of activities.
 
I suspect we're in the minority still, given that those involved are all RC enthusiasts I don't know how much attention that would have had in the scheme of things
 
Yeah, I would agree we are in the minority but they did go to the trouble of adding the features that make the cam useful as a dash cam and they've tweaked the firmware to solve some dash cam specific issues that have come up. Of course, they made a simple to install super-cap available and tweaked the firmware for that too, so this tells us they are interested in the dash cam market whatever size its may be in comparison to the RC market.
 
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