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That's great, but who wants to pay that much to have the same light for 60 years? One "advantage" of consumerism is cheap = changeable The sad part of modern
by keyle 8y ago
That's great, but who wants to pay that much to have the same light for 60 years?
One "advantage" of consumerism is cheap = changeable
The sad part of modern technology is that you can't fix it yourself, nor do you understand how it works. It doesn't make you any smarter.
That said, having a luxury product that last 60 years is a very niche market.
- doe88 8y ago> That's great, but who wants to pay that much to have the same light for 60 years? This. Technologies evolve/improve so fast, you don't want to be stuck with them forever anyway.
- oeuviz 8y agoMy coffee maker is from 1972 which makes it more than a decade older than the user. So there seems to be a market for high quality, unbreakable technology. But then again, how many years could it be operational when depending on an app.
- submeta 8y agoCurious: What kind / brand is it?
- michaelt 8y agoI once had a really good 40-year-old washing machine at a place I rented. Later, when I needed a washing machine of my own I looked up that top-quality brand and discovered in the intervening time they'd been brought by one of the bottom-quality brands, replaced their entire product lineup, moved their manufacturing abroad, and most likely replaced every employee too.
- oeuviz 8y agoAn Olympia Cremina and Maximatic.
- kbenson 8y ago> So there seems to be a market for high quality, unbreakable technology. There's a whole subreddit devoted to it, /r/buyitforlife.[1] I guess that's not much of a claim, since there's a subreddit for everything, but this one is kinda neat. :) That said, I think what a lot of people take issue with on Dyson devices is the extreme price premium which isn't really required most the time to achieve the advertised level of quality. 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/
- rdc12 8y agoThe downside to cheap and changeable, is it creates products that are disposable which contributes to a tonne of waste. I do miss having items that when they break, I could pull apart and repair too.
- abtinf 8y ago> 60 years Yet they only provide a 5 year warranty. I would expect a $600 desk lamp to have at a lifetime warranty. And they couldn’t even be bothered to get the warranty details right: at the top of the page, it says parts and labor, but at the bottom it says parts only.
- cma 8y agoYou pay to signal that you can buy and throw away something marketed to be a 60 year product.