Boys,
Everyone needs to rant every once in a while. But we really don't know what Futaba is thinking. Nor do any of us actually have a clue WHY they did anything. We weren't sitting in on their corporate meetings, nor witness to any of the design process. To be unhappy with a product that didn't stand up to our use is human. Unfortunately, to go off the deepend and state the manufacturer's motives and though processes is also human. And usually blows all our other arguments. When we throw in "what THEIR motives were, or what THEY were thinking", it simply turns your otherwise worthwhile observations into just so much noise.
The thing is, Futaba, and as far as I know Knife Edge and Great Planes (no proof to dismiss this claim), want to put more money in their pockets by telling their engineers to design junk. They don't care if the product they sell is crap. They don't care about keeping their customers happy. The only people they care about are themselves and I'm sick of what seems like every other corporation in America doing the same thing.
This needs to be detuned.
None of us have any possible way to know if the engineers were told to design junk. The idea that
"they don't care if the product is crap" is a rather silly notion. You had a pretty good rant going until you threw in that. And it's overboard to think every corportation in America is doing all that nonsense.
The InterlinkPlus controller/dongle I have is not even close to being junk. There are two local hobby shops in the area that have had both RealFlightG3 and FSOne displays going since back before Christmas. Neither of them have replaced their controllers and them suckers have seen some pretty rough use.
Rants work best when they don't include the silly flights of "insight".