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The problem is these brands only know about one thing: creating Veblen goods. So they'd turn Atari into overpriced Atari products that only the 0.1% would buy
by TacticalCoder 3y ago
The problem is these brands only know about one thing: creating Veblen goods.
So they'd turn Atari into overpriced Atari products that only the 0.1% would buy and it'd ruin the brand even more.
- motohagiography 3y agoPeople who know how the luxury business works would know that Atari perfume would be perfectly accessible in every airport and drugstore. Notes of vanilla and tang crystals over bakelite and moldy carpet. Only half kidding. A version of something like the Kyocera KY-01L or Punkt dumbphone (e-ink phones) but without the inferior Android OS, and for some smarter narrow use cases would be a play. We don't have luxury versions of tech because it's all too general purpose, where we can simulate the features of any other general purpose machine on any general purpose machine. There's no bar to any of it. The beauty of Atari was it just played games. The 2600 was a single purpose device, it was what it did. They failed when they had to compete with other general purpose computers. I'd apply Atari to produce single purpose devices.