> Larry wrote: > > Um do you mind not talking in word salad? In other words string please > your words together with semantical meaning and contextual inference > so us mere mortals may understand. >
Sure! Companies design product to meet a price point and, in general, the lower the price point the lower the quality. As a quick example, Wal-Mart. Everyone knows that most of stuff you buy in Wal-Mart is the cheapie version of the exact same product from the exact same company. I remember I bought a bunch of Newell Rubbermaid tubs with locking lids there once because they were a bargain. Welp, all the lids broke in 10 seconds. Some quickie research told me that the product number I bought was 1234-1. The "-1" meant the crap version that's made for Wally World, because the more expensive version I bought elsewhere still works great. Anyway, the time until failure for a product is typically called "mean time to failure" or the average time the average item will take to fail. The lady in the video suggests that companies might decided to make this very low so that people have to keep re-buying the same products. Well, let's take my tire example again. I could buy the Chinese tires that have a low mean-time-to-failure or I can buy the Nokians. The Nokians have a 50,000 mile warranty. Wait! A warranty! A warranty is a company's promise to you of the quality of their product. Ok, so wait - what about the conspiracy lady? Well, let's say Nokian decides to purposely make crappy tires. They'll be out of business in a heatbeat. Do you know why? Because I could secure $50,000,000 in a bank account tomorrow morning from VCs and PEGs to start a new company to steal all of their customers. Products fail. Companies even purposely design their products to fail as part of the "purchase bargain". That's not a conspiracy, that's just smart business. So anybody that believes it's some big conspiracy PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE just give me one example. I'll prove you wrong and make me rich at that same time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:308252 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
