Comments on: Oh quality, where art thou?

By: Elzeviro » OK Apple, what’s going on?

Elzeviro » OK Apple, what’s going on? — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:26:31 +0000

[...] It’s definitely hard to be an Apple fan these days. I’m writing this while waiting for some important data to be backed up before I hit the road to the nearest Apple reseller, hoping I can get a new power supply as mine is failing. Again. This time, I’m experiencing exactly what happened to Ugo one month ago, and I’m furiously tapping my Magsafe every five minutes or so to restore functionality. [...]

By: Elzeviro » My dear French friends…

Elzeviro » My dear French friends… — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:30:47 +0000

[...] Given we have a brand new (and almost working, yes, it’s not fixed yet) car, we opted for a driving trip through “douce France” instead, most likely up north (Normandie, Bretagne, and a few days in Paris of course). Suggestions on nice hotels, places to see, stuff to eat and golf courses to play are most welcome: the current rough (and flexible) itinerary ia Milan – Bourg En Bresse – Paris – Le Havre – Brest – OrlÃ©ans – Dijon – Lyon – Milan, spread over 8-10 days to allow for a comfortable driving. It will definitely be a way for me to dust off my poor French, and I’m looking forward to great moments while driving through France. And, again, every kind of travel tip is of course welcome! [...]

By: Mish

Mish — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:02:54 +0000

Oh my goodness. You have to read my post today about bimmers. My boyfriend is having the same issues and got nowhere with BMW.

By: Fabrizio Giudici

Fabrizio Giudici — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:58:10 +0000

Dear Gianugo, first of all my sympathy for you. Second, I own a MacBook Pro and a german car (AUDI brand) too. No problems at all, but having learnt about your adventures I feel that I’ll now type and drive with a single hand… keeping the other where every italian reader can imagine! :-O

By: Simone Gianni

Simone Gianni — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:04:11 +0000

My Mercedes SLK have a strange problem with lights turning on when you get off the car (external light, not internal ones). First time i noticed this was quite a few months after i bought it, suddently when i turn the car off and close the door, lights turned on for exactly 30 seconds. I phoned the car service, they told me to hold for about half an hour, and finally told me that IT HAS TO DO IT, so that when you get off the car in the dark, you can see the walls and the doors of the garage. So, I went to the car service to check why it didn’t worked for the previous 6 months, but they simply didn’t know, told me that i would have to change 3/4 electronic devices with a very high cost, so i decided not to go for it. Currently somethimes it turns them on, sometime doesn’t, sometime turn them on and never turn them off causing my battery to completely unload (happens about once a year, sometimes more often).

IMMO they don’t use unit testing, and should think about a quick way of upgrading their firmwares.

By: Francesco

Francesco — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:10:15 +0000

I had good experiences with a couple of german card (a Ford car is a german car after all ) but I haven’t been able to solve a little non high tech problem on my Renault body. Anyway I suppose TV set are pretty reliable these days, or are you watching TV with a backup one, pattery packs etc.?

The issue is the lack of customer orientation around, whatever the product or the supply chain is…

By: Gianugo

Gianugo — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:35:49 +0000

Gosh. So: software generally sucks, everything is going to have a software component sooner or later. Everything is going to suck. Stop the world, I want to get off!

By: Steve Loughran

Steve Loughran — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:31:56 +0000

Modern cars are too complex. I have a software bug my VW, in which the interior lighting algorithm is wrong (lights go off 30s after you unlock, even if a door is still open), but nobody can fix it.