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Maybe printers are kind of a dead end business? We want to be able to print things once in a while, but that's not enough to sustain a manufacturing business a
by chmod600 3y ago
Maybe printers are kind of a dead end business?
We want to be able to print things once in a while, but that's not enough to sustain a manufacturing business and certainly not much innovation.
Either someone comes up with a reason for people to print more and makes space in the market for innovation... or printing will just kind of suck forever.
- yencabulator 3y agoI'd argue there's too much "innovation" in the printer space. We would have been better off if they stopped at the 2000s level, and just charged actual manufacturing costs + margin.
- chmod600 3y agoOf course that's not real innovation. It's just profit extraction from a dwindling business. The simple business that makes a good product for a fair price and pays fair wages and keeps going forever is a romantic myth for the most part. Why? I'm not sure exactly, but it has something to do with growth.