"Teenage Engineering for X" is an excellent alternative template to "Uber for X" etc
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Why aren't there more studios like Teenage Engineering? Is it because making hardware is just so brutal? Because industrial design insights are rarely defensible?
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I’m honestly not sure if this is a joke or actually quite a profound answer!
Coolness requires uniqueness, so everyone can’t be it. One does get the sense, though, that more people could do stuff like this.
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Hm. I think of TE as being a) striking/unique and b) exceptionally polished. Is it possible for many people to have those properties but in very different ways? Many ways to be unique?
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Striking and unique are the things that require scarcity no?
Every mass market item in Walmart is probability exceptionally polished right? If they are making them at 10m unit scales.
Just not with premium finishes.
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Hm, can't they be striking and unique in different ways? e.g. on a walk through an art museum, you can find many strikingly different subgenres of contemporary art!
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It is all that but also quite redundant. It’s a gimmick.
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