I have never bought a cellphone where I couldn't replace the battery. Funny enough, my current phone is 3 years old and the battery still lasts about as long as it did originally.
Makes you wonder whether they deliberately use crappy batteries when building them non-replaceable so after 2 years when the battery croaks you wouldn't want to spend half the price of a new phone for a replacement battery and instead get a new phone, while using better quality on batteries where they know they'd have to stock spares because people would actually buy them...
Well, since you like GDPs so much... Here is a graphic of GDP per capita and state. Let's ignore DC for a moment and take a look at the real states.
Well.... yeah. Aside of Alaska, which is kinda a special case with lots of oil and few people to split the GDP between, I'd have to say that from top to bottom I can't help but notice a certain... how should I put it, "red-shift".
I don't give a fuck what label you decide to tack on me, just tell me what new word I have to use for "people who like technology but also understand it and are thus harder to convince that the technogarbage currently produced is worth paying for".
Quite frankly, who is the target audience? Hipsters are already buying them anyway, but there's even a limit to what techno junk they buy. Geeks won't touch something like this with a ten foot pole 'til they can eliminate the vendor lock-in and the total surveillance.
And, well, there isn't really that many other early adopters of technogadgets. If you want to sell something like this to the masses, they have to see a clear benefit, and there simply isn't one that their cellphone can't do satisfactory already.
This is basically why adaptation has been slow. It's generally the "look at me!" douches that adapt them early, and nobody but they themselves wants to be associated with this crowd.
I'm done talking about it. People ain't going to learn 'til it hurts themselves, so I guess we have to wait for when (not if) the planet becomes a hellhole.
...which is instantly abused by banks to gamble with your money, knowing that they either win and make a fortune or lose and get bailed out by YOU again.
Yes, it is a first world problem. Like everything discussed in the whole topic here. You think anyone in Central Africa gives half a shit about whether cardboard or plastic boxes are too big or too small to deliver some garbage?
But that's what we have. First world problems. We have the basic needs covered, so our wishes, desires and needs rise above them.
And the rest of his great inventions during those years, and after.
Bosch is one a bit more sympathetic character, he did found and head IG Farben, but at least got up and quit when he saw what the Nazis are going to do with his inventions when he noticed that he can't stop them, at least he didn't want to be part of it.
You are already paying a premium on shipping from Amazon. Either you have prime or you get relegated to the back of the queue with "3-10 days delivery" meaning 10 days deliver.
Because there might be a reason why I buy something. Ya know, like, I need that item. I don't know why you buy stuff, but that's why I buy it. It takes me time to take it home (from work, because that's where I pretty much have to have it delivered to because not sending it there means they find an empty house and take it to their "drop station" in some godforsaken corner of the planet where you can then go to pick it up... or the even more fun variant of them putting it down in front of your door where you have a good chance of it either being sopping wet if it's raining or stolen if it's not), unpack it, notice that it's broken, pack it again, print the labels, attach the labels, take it to the post office... and repeat that game a few times, hoping that it never happens to a delivery that is time critical (hint: You might want to have your christmas presents BEFORE the 24th, not broken on 12th, 18th, 23th and finally delivered on the 29th when your son is already sulking and doesn't even want the toy anymore because everyone else already showed off that they have it and he doesn't).
Sorry, but at the very least I'd want to be an "opt in" guinea pig.
I don't know where you live, but if you leave an Amazon package on the porch in many areas, they'll certainly be picked up very soon, but I have my doubts that it's going to be an Amazon employee who does it.
"A bit inconvenienced". Sure. Tell that to your kid on Christmas eve when you don't have the toy he sooooo wanted because Amazon shipped it in a cardboard box and the delivery guy wanted to find out whether he can punt it directly to your door.
The point is that creating a product is not generating revenue. If you produce, produce, produce but never sell, you go out of business. Producing to stockpile is not in your interest. What would be perfect is bespoke manufacturing with your customer already paying before you even start. That's usually not doable.
The point isn't selling something without producing anything. The point is that producing alone does not make a profit. Only when you can also sell what you produce, you start generating a revenue. Up to this point, all you generate is cost.
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I have never bought a cellphone where I couldn't replace the battery. Funny enough, my current phone is 3 years old and the battery still lasts about as long as it did originally.
Makes you wonder whether they deliberately use crappy batteries when building them non-replaceable so after 2 years when the battery croaks you wouldn't want to spend half the price of a new phone for a replacement battery and instead get a new phone, while using better quality on batteries where they know they'd have to stock spares because people would actually buy them...
I think his words would be "Oh Timmy, why did I have to die and you're still alive?"
You do know that Apple actually confirmed that they do throttle the speed, yes? Last time I checked I needn't proof guilt if the culprit confesses.
Well, since you like GDPs so much... Here is a graphic of GDP per capita and state. Let's ignore DC for a moment and take a look at the real states.
Well.... yeah. Aside of Alaska, which is kinda a special case with lots of oil and few people to split the GDP between, I'd have to say that from top to bottom I can't help but notice a certain ... how should I put it, "red-shift".
But I'm sure you can explain this.
I don't give a fuck what label you decide to tack on me, just tell me what new word I have to use for "people who like technology but also understand it and are thus harder to convince that the technogarbage currently produced is worth paying for".
Could we PLEASE get one thread without someone feeling the urge to derail it and talk about Donald?
So... if I aim a gun at the president but you are the one pulling the trigger, I won't get the chair?
I'm asking for a friend.
A 5 year old with a gun does get his pudding without eating his meat...
What makes you think that were women?
That's a lie that my passport tells. I've been 8 for decades now!
You might want to have your sarcasm detector checked.... jeeeeeesh...
Hans plays with Lotti, Lotti plays with Jane...
Quite frankly, who is the target audience? Hipsters are already buying them anyway, but there's even a limit to what techno junk they buy. Geeks won't touch something like this with a ten foot pole 'til they can eliminate the vendor lock-in and the total surveillance.
And, well, there isn't really that many other early adopters of technogadgets. If you want to sell something like this to the masses, they have to see a clear benefit, and there simply isn't one that their cellphone can't do satisfactory already.
This is basically why adaptation has been slow. It's generally the "look at me!" douches that adapt them early, and nobody but they themselves wants to be associated with this crowd.
Why do you hate freedom of choice? Instead of being condemned to have health care, you can freely choose between having health insurance and eating.
I'm done talking about it. People ain't going to learn 'til it hurts themselves, so I guess we have to wait for when (not if) the planet becomes a hellhole.
...which is instantly abused by banks to gamble with your money, knowing that they either win and make a fortune or lose and get bailed out by YOU again.
Yes, it is a first world problem. Like everything discussed in the whole topic here. You think anyone in Central Africa gives half a shit about whether cardboard or plastic boxes are too big or too small to deliver some garbage?
But that's what we have. First world problems. We have the basic needs covered, so our wishes, desires and needs rise above them.
Before Christmas? There is a limit to the atrocities I want to endure.
Weaponization of chlorine gas.
And the rest of his great inventions during those years, and after.
Bosch is one a bit more sympathetic character, he did found and head IG Farben, but at least got up and quit when he saw what the Nazis are going to do with his inventions when he noticed that he can't stop them, at least he didn't want to be part of it.
You are already paying a premium on shipping from Amazon. Either you have prime or you get relegated to the back of the queue with "3-10 days delivery" meaning 10 days deliver.
You pay with money or nerves.
Because there might be a reason why I buy something. Ya know, like, I need that item. I don't know why you buy stuff, but that's why I buy it. It takes me time to take it home (from work, because that's where I pretty much have to have it delivered to because not sending it there means they find an empty house and take it to their "drop station" in some godforsaken corner of the planet where you can then go to pick it up... or the even more fun variant of them putting it down in front of your door where you have a good chance of it either being sopping wet if it's raining or stolen if it's not), unpack it, notice that it's broken, pack it again, print the labels, attach the labels, take it to the post office ... and repeat that game a few times, hoping that it never happens to a delivery that is time critical (hint: You might want to have your christmas presents BEFORE the 24th, not broken on 12th, 18th, 23th and finally delivered on the 29th when your son is already sulking and doesn't even want the toy anymore because everyone else already showed off that they have it and he doesn't).
Sorry, but at the very least I'd want to be an "opt in" guinea pig.
I don't know where you live, but if you leave an Amazon package on the porch in many areas, they'll certainly be picked up very soon, but I have my doubts that it's going to be an Amazon employee who does it.
"A bit inconvenienced". Sure. Tell that to your kid on Christmas eve when you don't have the toy he sooooo wanted because Amazon shipped it in a cardboard box and the delivery guy wanted to find out whether he can punt it directly to your door.
The point is that creating a product is not generating revenue. If you produce, produce, produce but never sell, you go out of business. Producing to stockpile is not in your interest. What would be perfect is bespoke manufacturing with your customer already paying before you even start. That's usually not doable.
The point isn't selling something without producing anything. The point is that producing alone does not make a profit. Only when you can also sell what you produce, you start generating a revenue. Up to this point, all you generate is cost.