The Economy of No Product
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- robco0
nice article.
most 'consumers' are beginning to realize their needs. this is great for companies like apple - who's goal has been to make premium, lasting products and experiences for a premium price - this goes for Dyson too.
Its great for product designers too (i want to design high quality, lasting things!), i know many for whom there is no pride in designing products they know will fly into the landfill as as quickly as it flies off the shelf. In this, GOOD DESIGNERS will become invaluable and they will be payed a premium - the products themselves will become very expensive as well. when you buy one laptop for the next 15 years of your life - it will be 200% more expensive than the macbook pro you planned on using for 5 - 6 years, and you will pay to have it serviced instead of throwing it away. quantity is being forced down, quality is being forced up.
"Apple and Dell can perhaps no longer rely on an army of beta-testing first adopters who will pay an absurd price to troubleshoot version one of the next iPhone, essentially subsidizing Apple’s development of a cheap­er, debugged upgrade for everyone else."
I also disagree here in that i think Apple and Dell will always be able to rely on early adopters to troubleshoot the first products - they will however regonize their place as consumers and as the test group 'efficiency experts' though, and will be compensated in some way...