And of course we don't really know how budgets are allocated? That they might have just bought their iPads as part of the purchase cycle whereas 'Eng guy' already had one, and 'the sensor' wasn't enough to justify a new one? And that everything customer-facing has to be relatively new? And that 'the trip' they were on has nothing to do with anything?
Actually, if you do software development for a mobile device you need at least one recent working sample of said mobile device to test on. Emulators are a joke.
If he's complaining about a bad sensor it means that sensor was hindering his testing, otherwise he wouldn't have even noticed.
First, it has nothing to do with MBAs.
And of course we don't really know how budgets are allocated? That they might have just bought their iPads as part of the purchase cycle whereas 'Eng guy' already had one, and 'the sensor' wasn't enough to justify a new one? And that everything customer-facing has to be relatively new? And that 'the trip' they were on has nothing to do with anything?