How did treez learn to be so clueless? Is there a special school you can go to for this?
I'm increasingly thinking he's just trolling to wind people up - if not he probably needs a major reality check...
If you read his previous posts it is obvious he is looking for government/political protection for his company because he works in highly competitive market places that end up having retarded margins or he is trying to break into certain market places populated by whale companies as a small fish company. If you can't use massive discounts due to insane volume to compete then you either need to either use shady engineering or business practices. The parts/solutions he asks for do not exist (i.e. handling his needs with existing device classes) so he is looking for some other method with which to operate a business.
Eliminating a free market and being first does the trick but unfortunately this results in command economies... So the business functions by robbing the tax payers. On the positive maybe his attitude is Machiavellian rather then completely sociopathic so he will make a high quality product that makes sense once he accumulates the necessary resources for cost reduction by scale.
The ethical way (i.e. not penalizing the freaking tax payer) of achieving this goal would be to develop a product that will work in the correct scale and look for trustworthy investors/venture capitalists, rather then eliminating competition with gestapo tactics. In short there is an idiot some where in his company and they are extremely pigheaded. The engineering specifications he gets with relation to BOM are completely
insane. I am surprised they even try to develop that shit. How does that garbage even get authorized to go into the engineering department for development? The person authorizing the research is incompetent, the clear answer is that the market place is too difficult to enter at the current time with current resources. It is a gangsterish directive, with the hope that the engineers can hustle together some kind of solution in the face of extreme odds. Usually BOM reduction is started AFTER a reasonably easy to develop prototype is made that can at least make some money, to see if you can make more money.. as a side benefit.
I think there is paranoia in his sales department and company vision because they have been in competition with other little fish for so long, that they forgot you can actually get bigger WITHOUT selling anything if you have a GOOD PLAN that CONVINCES PEOPLE TO INVEST. Like people getting out of prison don't realize there is a economy that works well without stabbings and cigarette cartons. It seems they feel that they have to prove current production is highly profitable, rather then to admit that the market changed and they need additional resources to continue to prosper. Its basically a refusal of acceptance by MANAGEMENT.
Remember the episode of the Simpsons where marge advises a fellow inmate that his art work will look better if he does not use the stabbing motion with the paint brush?
I have a feeling that if they manage to produce a product that can satisfy company objectives at this point with the current company directives that lead to the development of the product it will literally be a smelly abomination... or some truly epic engineering (which is generally unlikely for any product). The cost related requirements are some Apollo 13 shit.
And the problem with a command economy is that it basically has a shitty transient response that ends up wasting a ton of cash, people high up don't have a good feel of what is going on and they can't respond quickly enough to market fluctuations. I would regard communism as 'dampened to shit all', it probobly won't ever reach the set point, let alone respond to changes.