1/ NOOOOOOOOOOOO STRONG DISAGREE There are two kinds of obsolescence: planned and unplanned. As in all things, doing something half-assed and without a clue is NOT BETTER. https://twitter.com/AHelleneAuthor/status/1349753767848275970 …
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4/ BUT MORLOCK, EVEN A FIVE YEAR GASKET IS EVIL. NO PARTS SHOULD EVER WEAR OUT. MAKE A FIVE THOUSAND YEAR BLENDER.
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5/ You can upgrade from a 1 year gasket to a 5 year gasket for 2 cents ... but upgrading to a 10 year gasket might cost $1. A 20 year gasket might cost $30. There might be no such thing as a 50 year gasket.
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6/ And trade offs don't only occur in price - they also can implicate weight, or heat, or whatever. Does a 20 year motor weigh twice as much? Does a 30 year motor generate more heat, creating a need for vent holes...which are a bad idea in a wet kitchen environment ?
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7/ Your marketing research tells you that 80% of housewives throw away a blender every 8 years to upgrade to new color schemes. Your research also tells you that a price increase that turns a 5 year blender into a 10 yr blender results in 50% decrease in sales. Wat u do?
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8/ Every equation has both costs and benefits. Understand both. "Planned" is better than "unplanned", because the first one means you're paying attention and the second one means you're half assing things. /exeunt
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9/ yes, pointing out that gaskets are easy to replace is a very very good object level argument that totally cripples the meta level point I was making, thank you for the rebuttalhttps://twitter.com/SumErgoMonstro/status/1349756365770731524 …
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10/ The word is fine as is. Some people have a concept in their head, but that concept does not, I assert, map to a thing in the real world. Renaming "lizard people" to "Squamata people" does not make them exist.https://twitter.com/Wfflthebffl/status/1349765096424275969 …
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11/ right, so - like I said - you can have a term (as you do) for a thing that doesn't actually exist in realityhttps://twitter.com/Wfflthebffl/status/1349766151014854656 …
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12/ Engineers SHOULD NOT have the final word on what gets built, because the "best product" (a) is not one thing, for one customer, but an array of things for various customers (b) consists of a tuple of price / reliability / maintenance cost / etchttps://twitter.com/Wfflthebffl/status/1349766486852841473 …
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13/ It is false / incorrect to say that a car that lasts 20 years is flat out better than a car that lasts 10 years. What are the trade offs? Higher cost? Worse maneuverability? Higher maintenance? Different customers want different things. >>>
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14/ This is not a question that engineers can or should solve. Marketing is a sophisticated field, and is NOT just writing ad copy. Marketing involves (a) doing research on what customers want, (b) narrowing down various things that a firm COULD deliver to the things it SHOULD
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15/ Let's say that there's a market for beverage pitchers The market is complex - some people want bulletproof, price-no-object. Others want stylish, and will discard and repurchase every year. Others are poor and want cheap and durable. College students want cheap / stylish
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16/ Every one of these is a potential product. What should our firm, firm X, produce? Firm X must look at it's existing engineers, it's existing product designers, it's existing mfgr facilities and equipment, it's existing sales channels, and then pick 1 or more.
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17/ "your claim is false, but I have no evidence proving it false ; I misused a term, and now you have to come up with a better term" no this type of argument bores mehttps://twitter.com/Wfflthebffl/status/1349767404637872129 …
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18/ markets are n-dimensional, and to use the word "best" implies single dimensionality ; like someone who tells me that he's trying to get a touchdown in chess, it just clues me in that I should mute the topic / person https://twitter.com/GeoGDF01/status/1349767711535017984 …
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19/ RT <locked> I think you're being a tad unfair here. There definitely is a real thing people are thinking of. In a global economy, everything is now opaque sausage-making. Some people just want a valuable peek into those processes to make good decisions
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20/ eh, I think the marketplace is far more transparent in 2021 than ever before
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