Re: Business models.

David Scheidt <dscheidt@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> JoeB <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> :Exactly. I've got a cordless drill that I inherited from somewhere which
> :appears to have had this function designed in from the start. Admittedly
> :it's a CAKOPOS[0] but when you have to use two contra-rotating Mole grips
> :just to get the damn drills to stop falling on the floor then something is
> :amiss.
>
> Not to pick on you, but why the fsck do people put up with shitty
> tools? Worse, why do people put up with borken shitty tools? A new
> piece of crap cordless drill costs $20. Maybe $35 if you insist on a
> keyless chuck. A new good one costs $75 or so. A decent corded drill
> costs $20. Why put up with having to use pliers on a drill chuck?


See Cdr. Vimes' rant on the price of boots. You can spend $75 once
for a good tool or $20 over and over again for unsatisfactory tools,
but when it's unlikely that you'll have more than $20 to work with at
any given time, you wind up giving the tool manufacturer $200 in the
time a more affluent buyer would give him $75.

--
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention
from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
-- Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
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