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This is common company strategy. IBM used to sell upgrades to their hardware that would take a technician visit to upgrade the machine. The thing was that the t
by WheelsAtLarge 7y ago
This is common company strategy. IBM used to sell upgrades to their hardware that would take a technician visit to upgrade the machine. The thing was that the tech would only have to make a small change to the machine to upgrade it. Tesla does this as part of their offerings.
It's not a bad thing. As a consumer I can buy a cheaper product and not have to buy features I don't need.
People seem to forget that companies need to make a profit to stay in business. I don't care if GoPro stays or goes but it has to at least break even to stay around to produce their products.
- madengr 7y agoThe base cost of a Keysight Field Fox spectrum analyzer is $6k. You then enable $60k worth of licenses on it, but all the hardware is already in there. Pretty crazy.
- pests 7y agoThe price of things is not always related to the cost of it's components.
- throwlaplace 7y ago>The price of things is not always related to the cost of it's components. that's besides the point entirely - we all already know that an item's price isn't just a reflection of BOM. here the point is that they're literally just inflating the price arbitrarily.
- blackguardx 7y agoI used to work at Keysight's spectrum analyzer R&D group. They do this to simplify their manufacturing logistics and to try to get volume production efficiencies. The monthly volume of any one particular SKU is so low that if they didn't combine all the models together, they would essentially be custom making everything.
- GuB-42 7y agoAnother advantage of selling crippled high end products as low end is that they can sell defective hardware. For example, if there is a bunch of cameras with defective GPS units, they can still be sold on the low end segment, where that feature is disabled.