Imagine owning a restaurant chain and your customers are willing to pay the same amount for an expertly prepared full course meal as they are for a slice of bread on a plate.
Because companies that produce high quality products don't get repeat business, their products last a lifetime.
The key is making it so your product lasts slightly longer than the competition (or exactly the same length of time if you're part of a lightbulb consortium), while also appearing higher quality at first glance. Bonus points if you can shove in some buzzword features and pretend it's more energy efficient somehow. Make something too crappy, and the consumers will buy from your competitors next time (who are all really just shell companies and brands you already own the rights to).
This is the only and correct answer. But it's also worth noting that planned obsolescence has been around from the early 20th century and started in the automotive world.
why put in the r&d when people aren't willing to pay for a fancier microwave?
even though the computer in that would be peanuts to produce, why spend the money even developing it in the first place, if you can get the same amount of money by just not doing it?
making something cheaper is often more rewarded than making something better
Real answer is competition leads to manufacturers using cheaper shoddier parts to save on costs. People buy the cheapest thing that works so all you need to do is get a working product, it doesn't have to be durable.
I've opened thousands of microwaves over the years, from the highest end models to the lowest supermarket own brand shit, and let me tell you they are all exactly the same inside. Same components, from the same Chinese factory, laid out in the exact same design.
Stallman's law.
Stallman's law.
Stallman's law.
Stallman's wall.
So they can sell you something more when it breaks.
because Richard Stallman was right.
Imagine owning a restaurant chain and your customers are willing to pay the same amount for an expertly prepared full course meal as they are for a slice of bread on a plate.
>97
>antique
also, aren't modern inverter microwaves better?
>aren't modern inverter microwaves better?
They are.
>many bananas create weak monke
>few bananas create strong monke
that's not how it works
omg srsly, took me forever to find a good microwave with a dial button
Because companies that produce high quality products don't get repeat business, their products last a lifetime.
The key is making it so your product lasts slightly longer than the competition (or exactly the same length of time if you're part of a lightbulb consortium), while also appearing higher quality at first glance. Bonus points if you can shove in some buzzword features and pretend it's more energy efficient somehow. Make something too crappy, and the consumers will buy from your competitors next time (who are all really just shell companies and brands you already own the rights to).
Planned obsolescence they design products to fail not work
This is the only and correct answer. But it's also worth noting that planned obsolescence has been around from the early 20th century and started in the automotive world.
Japan, the only source of good consoomer products, has died.
Race to the bottom.
why put in the r&d when people aren't willing to pay for a fancier microwave?
even though the computer in that would be peanuts to produce, why spend the money even developing it in the first place, if you can get the same amount of money by just not doing it?
making something cheaper is often more rewarded than making something better
Real answer is competition leads to manufacturers using cheaper shoddier parts to save on costs. People buy the cheapest thing that works so all you need to do is get a working product, it doesn't have to be durable.
The video. Posting etiquette peaked in 1997 too.
I've opened thousands of microwaves over the years, from the highest end models to the lowest supermarket own brand shit, and let me tell you they are all exactly the same inside. Same components, from the same Chinese factory, laid out in the exact same design.
I was born in 1997.
because each time a technology is fully adopted from academia by the industry it becomes a race to the bottom