Improving the quality of the boots was a requirement to be able to bid for the military contract.
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This has been achieved through extensive development, strict quality control, and a stringent pre-production testing requirement of 400 drives passing 500 hours of intensive tests with zero errors.
Touch has been in the marketplace for a while on Windows PCs but never took off either due to lack of a touch-optimized OS and apps, low qualityquality experience of resistive touch controllers on previous devices, and in many cases the requirement for a pen versus a finger.