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> 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
by 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/