Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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If some one told you to design a stylus retention mechanism, is this what you would come up with? If it was I’d fire you.
As you can see, the re-enforcement is in the wrong place, creating flex in the thin plastic. Over time the plastic wears out and it breaks, making the pen fall out of the case.
I fixed this by taking the device apart, and sticking some rubber at the end of the stylus silo to create enough resistance to keep the pen in place. Shoddy engineering. No wonder carriers test phones for so long. Imagine if 100% of the devices you sold needed to be serviced after 30 days?
If you have an HTC Wizard (k-jam), get ready for this. It will happen to you.