What They Say
We reported that TCL’s Google-based TVs were no longer on sale in Best Buy in the US after some problems, but the sets have now been updated with new firmware that have made “significant improvements on the stability and speed of the TCL televisions featuring Google TV”.
What We Think
Software development is usually a trilemma (On the Horns of a Trilemma!). Of the three aspects of “bug-free”, “cheap” and “developed quickly”, you can usually choose only two of the three. On that basis, we could assume that TCL threw a lot of resource at fixing this problem. However, software testing usually takes real time, which implies that the update was already close to release when the problem surfaced. (BR)
