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Why even have multiple brands? Why not just have the government enforce a single manufacturer for each type of item and standardize everything? They could plan
by rrdharan 5y ago
Why even have multiple brands? Why not just have the government enforce a single manufacturer for each type of item and standardize everything? They could plan if all centrally and… oh wait.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoWhy have any rules about what the manufacturers must do at all? Let them sell us autonomous cars for $1,000 which need a $5,000 subscribtion to drive. Oh, you want to put child i a car, the car won't start unless you add a child add-on. Oh, you need to go to the hospital, because your wife is giving birth, that will be extra $5,000 one-time fee.
- adhesive_wombat 5y agoI can hear Amazon's self driving car division furiously taking notes.
- adhesive_wombat 5y agoThe point is, if you don't want to support spares for your device, you have the option of using standard parts. If you want your own part, you have to either make it available, or you have to make it reliable enough that you don't need to. That would remind the incentive to have parts that fail be profitable. Making unreliable and unserviceable devices should cost you more.
- thfuran 5y agoJust mandate reasonably long warranty to force things to be reliable.