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To be a fly on the wall at John Deere right now..
by 0des 4y ago
To be a fly on the wall at John Deere right now..
- trash3 4y agoLaughing and clinking drinks. Look at their stock past five years. They're a monopoly.
- VBprogrammer 4y agoIn which way are they a monopoly? Is that US specific? In the UK/EU there are at least half a dozen different tractor brands which I could name, all of them with significant market share.
- 0des 4y agoJohn Deere limits your options with regard to repair. It's not so much a monopoly as it is anticompetitive
- nomel 4y agoI don't think a brand being fashionable, to a middle aged demographic, makes them a monopoly. They're just popular. There are plenty of other similar bikes that can be bought. edit: I'm an idiot. I read the comment as being about Harley Davidson.
- WheatM 4y ago
- williamcotton 4y agoAGCO has like 1/5th of the farm equipment market in the US. Massey-Furgeson and Allis-Chalmers being their big two tractor brands.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoThis was the obvious one, how could they miss it? Smells like money & politics might be involved...
- kevin_thibedeau 4y ago12 years of "pro-business" administrations that wouldn't act and 8 years of obstructionist antics to keep a potentially pro-consumer administration from taking action.
- Overtonwindow 4y agoJohn Deere, Apple, Sony... all of them. To a larger point with miniaturization, however, surely there is a point where third party repair might be very difficult, if not impossible.
- 0des 4y agoModern Lexus cars appear to be going this way too. It's nothing but a bunch of shenanigans and plastic under the hood now.
- asdff 4y agoIt's affected pretty much all cars for the last 15 years or so. I really think a 2000s era car was peak car. You had safety via ABS and airbags, efficiency via decent mpg in most cars by that era especially anything imported, but you still had sense with mechanical throttles, simple bulletproof manual transmissions, and steering by mechanical linkage. Anything that isn't a VW/Audi you could reasonably do all the work yourself in your garage. Very nonintimidating and accessible engine bays in 2000s/1990s hondas I've found. You could do the VW/Audi too if you had tons of time and an engine lift. If you have a decent car from that era like that, hang on tight to it and take care of it, and watch the value just soar over the years, because they will never make them like that again.
- joshspankit 4y agoOnly at the point at which they themselves cannot repair it. If one human can repair it, so can other humans. They can argue “safety” all day but there is nothing magical about certification.
- threeseed 4y ago> If one human can repair it, so can other humans Not all humans are created equal. Repairing a mechanical watch for example requires fine motor skills, decent eyesight, impeccable patience etc. And modern day electronics are fast approaching that level of complexity.
- aeyes 4y agoThey are laughing, decades disrespecting the law and not even a fine.
- makeitdouble 4y agoMost recent right to repair move [0] came with an exception for them. I wouldn't be surprised if all other ruling that would touch would be either stalled or advanced with a special exception for them. [0] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/328610-new-dmca-exemptions-guarantee-a-de-facto-right-to-repair https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/328610-new-dmca-exemptio...