CompuNerd
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I'd love to test chartplotter or MFD interfaces to get a feel for how they work. Anyone know of a way to do this short of driving into a hive of scum and villainy (e.g., a retail store)?
When I was developing software and product demos we did our darndest to make a semi-functional system available over the internet so users could get a feel for how it all worked, especially as one of our key selling points was usability. In the chartplotter and MFD world, the vendors I'm looking at (Garmin, Raymarine, Furuno) seem to rely on retail kiosks and happy-clappy Youtube videos.***
If you have pointers to anything that doesn't involve a salesdroid, care to share?
*** "It only takes seven keystrokes to add a stock ticker to the bottom of our fish finder! The competition CAN'T EVEN DO THAT!" Wow, Jim, that's incredible!"
When I was developing software and product demos we did our darndest to make a semi-functional system available over the internet so users could get a feel for how it all worked, especially as one of our key selling points was usability. In the chartplotter and MFD world, the vendors I'm looking at (Garmin, Raymarine, Furuno) seem to rely on retail kiosks and happy-clappy Youtube videos.***
If you have pointers to anything that doesn't involve a salesdroid, care to share?
*** "It only takes seven keystrokes to add a stock ticker to the bottom of our fish finder! The competition CAN'T EVEN DO THAT!" Wow, Jim, that's incredible!"