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I wonder why Corning doesn't make these as a boutique or novelty product. Edit: Could this also be used for window glass?

by chasil 2y ago

kragen 2y ago
before they sold off the brand to a different company, corning started selling tempered glass as 'pyrex', resulting in a dozen or so hospital visits with disabling burn injuries every year in the usa alone i'm not sure whether to blame this kind of line extension fraud on unethical management, on consumers who can't tell the difference and consequently buy such fraudulent products whenever they're cheaper, or on poorly-thought-out regulations (making real pyrex emits boria into the air, which is an insecticide and therefore does environmental damage, a consideration probably not relevant to gorilla glass)
- rangerelf 2y ago
  > i'm not sure whether to blame this kind of line extension fraud on unethical management, on consumers who can't tell the difference and consequently buy such fraudulent products whenever they're cheaper, or on poorly-thought-out regulations Porqué no los tres? CEOs pursuing yet another vacation home, under-educated consumers that lose their minds over 'saving' 1c ("$5.00" too expensive "4.99!" OHH THIS ONE!!), and regulators either with a private-sector agenda or who have no teeth because Congress is politically compromised. There's more than enough blame to spread around.
psunavy03 2y ago
Corning already makes Corelle, which are tempered glass plates and bowls. They'll also take a bounce off a tile floor from counter-level and have a good shot at not breaking.
- nimish 2y ago
  They sold that off decades ago. The brand just hangs around
- HarryHirsch 2y ago
  Hasn't Corelle been enshittified as well? It used to be tempered glass with milk glass in the middle, but now it's just milk glass?
  - psunavy03 2y ago
    I just got new Corelle about 18 months ago when I redid my kitchen, and don't see any difference between that and the previous stuff I'd bought probably 15 years ago, other than the different pattern.
  - adamc 2y ago
    I bought a set of Corelle 7 years ago that seems very much like the Corelle I bought 30 years ago. Not convinced it's any worse. I think dishwashing and/or age does eventually make it more fragile, but it seems fairly durable. I've lost one piece in 7 years.
    - shellback3 2y ago
      I bought Corelle about 15 years ago and none have broken - I suspect it's because none have ever been dropped. I glad to hear that when one does drop on the hard floor it might survive.
  - mohaine 2y ago
    Yes and no. Some I’ve bought recently is good and some is the name on normal ceramics or glass. It is now buyer beware for sure.
  - seanw444 2y ago
    > enshittified This fad word can't die soon enough.
    - jujube3 2y ago
      In strange eons, the word "enshittified" may itself be enshittified
    - 2y ago
fuzzfactor 2y ago
Probably would cost Corning even more than ordinary glass that they are prospering well enough from now. At the same time the old European factories can make specialty glasses cheap enough for schools and pubs. What if some person like Einstein invented glass to begin with, it would not take that much insight to conclude that the "weak point" was how easily it can be broken. If they really started working on that problem from the very beginning you would expect more progress the more centuries that it was continued. OTOH what if inventing glass was not the result of very much of an intellectual exercise, anybody can still see the disadvantages when it come to breakage. But they might not start to do anything about it until centuries later. Who knows? What if just barely making glass was (almost) like a lost art where it took a few centuries for someone like Einstein to come along and take an interest in a way that could add more scientific process, even if still illiterate. Or maybe even more likely, an intermittent series of lesser Einsteins make their contributions to a geographical technical center of excellence which did originally arise from a gifted or fortunate individual at the beginning. Maintaining the status quo (as an art center producing recognized "masterpieces") over generations until the next amazing experimentalist gains a position influential enough to make a contribution so worthwhile it lasts more centuries into the future. Pretty amazing when you think about it, they didn't even have half the chemical elements there are today ;)

I wonder why Corning doesn't make these as a boutique or novelty product. Edit: Could this also be used for window glass?

by chasil 2y ago

I wonder why Corning doesn't make these as a boutique or novelty product. Edit: Could this also be used for window glass?

kragen 2y ago

before they sold off the brand to a different company, corning started selling tempered glass as 'pyrex', resulting in a dozen or so hospital visits with disabling burn injuries every year in the usa alone i'm not sure whether to blame this kind of line extension fraud on unethical management, on consumers who can't tell the difference and consequently buy such fraudulent products whenever they're cheaper, or on poorly-thought-out regulations (making real pyrex emits boria into the air, which is an insecticide and therefore does environmental damage, a consideration probably not relevant to gorilla glass)

rangerelf 2y ago
> i'm not sure whether to blame this kind of line extension fraud on unethical management, on consumers who can't tell the difference and consequently buy such fraudulent products whenever they're cheaper, or on poorly-thought-out regulations Porqué no los tres? CEOs pursuing yet another vacation home, under-educated consumers that lose their minds over 'saving' 1c ("$5.00" too expensive "4.99!" OHH THIS ONE!!), and regulators either with a private-sector agenda or who have no teeth because Congress is politically compromised. There's more than enough blame to spread around.

psunavy03 2y ago

Corning already makes Corelle, which are tempered glass plates and bowls. They'll also take a bounce off a tile floor from counter-level and have a good shot at not breaking.

nimish 2y ago
They sold that off decades ago. The brand just hangs around
HarryHirsch 2y ago
Hasn't Corelle been enshittified as well? It used to be tempered glass with milk glass in the middle, but now it's just milk glass?
- psunavy03 2y ago
  I just got new Corelle about 18 months ago when I redid my kitchen, and don't see any difference between that and the previous stuff I'd bought probably 15 years ago, other than the different pattern.
- adamc 2y ago
  I bought a set of Corelle 7 years ago that seems very much like the Corelle I bought 30 years ago. Not convinced it's any worse. I think dishwashing and/or age does eventually make it more fragile, but it seems fairly durable. I've lost one piece in 7 years.
  - shellback3 2y ago
    I bought Corelle about 15 years ago and none have broken - I suspect it's because none have ever been dropped. I glad to hear that when one does drop on the hard floor it might survive.
- mohaine 2y ago
  Yes and no. Some I’ve bought recently is good and some is the name on normal ceramics or glass. It is now buyer beware for sure.
- seanw444 2y ago
  > enshittified This fad word can't die soon enough.
  - jujube3 2y ago
    In strange eons, the word "enshittified" may itself be enshittified
  - 2y ago

fuzzfactor 2y ago

Probably would cost Corning even more than ordinary glass that they are prospering well enough from now. At the same time the old European factories can make specialty glasses cheap enough for schools and pubs. What if some person like Einstein invented glass to begin with, it would not take that much insight to conclude that the "weak point" was how easily it can be broken. If they really started working on that problem from the very beginning you would expect more progress the more centuries that it was continued. OTOH what if inventing glass was not the result of very much of an intellectual exercise, anybody can still see the disadvantages when it come to breakage. But they might not start to do anything about it until centuries later. Who knows? What if just barely making glass was (almost) like a lost art where it took a few centuries for someone like Einstein to come along and take an interest in a way that could add more scientific process, even if still illiterate. Or maybe even more likely, an intermittent series of lesser Einsteins make their contributions to a geographical technical center of excellence which did originally arise from a gifted or fortunate individual at the beginning. Maintaining the status quo (as an art center producing recognized "masterpieces") over generations until the next amazing experimentalist gains a position influential enough to make a contribution so worthwhile it lasts more centuries into the future. Pretty amazing when you think about it, they didn't even have half the chemical elements there are today ;)