Both cost of entry and brand loyalty/bootlicking are fairly high in the household appliance market. As such, you’ll only see a few businesses in the market. And, every time that businesses have no competition, they’ll do this sort of shit, where they lower the value of their product for the sake of more profits.
That’s capitalism.
HN comments confirming yet again why I love this comm - because I don’t need to deal with them here, unless I want to:
[Top comment] As a…
*rolls eyes* Stopped reading there.
[2nd top comment] I moved […] In my kitchen, I have […] I don’t […] I used […] When I […] When I […] I always ask […] When I cook […] If I leave […] it’s not a big deal for me […] I decided […] I can’t […] I want […] What I really need […]
Personal anecdote that boils down to “I feel so speshul, pay attention to ME! ME! ME!”. And you can’t even generalise anything useful out of it, because the user cares about things that plenty people don’t (like knobs) and vice versa (like, you know… eating warm food?).
The best microwave I’ve ever used was probably from the early 80s. […]
In contrast with the above, this anecdote is actually sensible. Not surprisingly ignored by HN commenters.
Both cost of entry and brand loyalty/bootlicking are fairly high in the household appliance market. As such, you’ll only see a few businesses in the market. And, every time that businesses have no competition, they’ll do this sort of shit, where they lower the value of their product for the sake of more profits.
That’s capitalism.
HN comments confirming yet again why I love this comm - because I don’t need to deal with them here, unless I want to:
*rolls eyes* Stopped reading there.
Personal anecdote that boils down to “I feel so speshul, pay attention to ME! ME! ME!”. And you can’t even generalise anything useful out of it, because the user cares about things that plenty people don’t (like knobs) and vice versa (like, you know… eating warm food?).
In contrast with the above, this anecdote is actually sensible. Not surprisingly ignored by HN commenters.
“I dun unrurrstand” tier comment.