I’m not condemning the person I haven’t watched.

But I don’t need a 41 minute video that sounds like he just expounds personal opinions and is not really meritorious.

I follow this stuff, I have for 30 plus years.

If he didn’t heavily focus on extended warranties, he’s in the weeds.

And I see no evidence from what people are discussing here that he clues in on that.

I haven’t watched this video, but based on your comment I don’t think I’ll bother.

It is my sincere understanding that the degradation of quality is from the companies trying to leverage extended warranties as the true profit center of appliances.

edit: I should add in more detail. Sorry Avid, not trying to converse “around” you, it’s just meant to inform other’s on how I come to think this way.

The shit really hit the fan for quality when Maytag/Whirlpool bought Amana and restructured. They closed most of their manufacturing and consolidated. Really this meant that for all the “banners” or “brands” that various machines were sold under in the various stores, now for the most part they were all the exact same machines, literally made in the same plants, same pumps, elements, controllers, you get the picture. The drop in quality was precipitous from this point.

Oh, and Haier was trying to purchase either Amana or Whirlpool, can’t remember which. But at any rate Haier was in the game walking the dog on consumers as well. Samsung, who had absolutely no fucking business making appliances, then jumped hard into the game because they’re a major competitor. Businesses playing shell games and strategically competing.

All of this dovetailed with the larger industry-wide push to embrace the “extended warranty” profit stream. Companies everywhere were figuring out that the money was flowing like water with this scam. This slowly evolved into a quasi-subscription type business model where they are now designed and expected to fail in a specific time frame. Circuit boards by steam vents, changing key components to aluminum which corrodes. That type of obvious bullshit.

I think now they’ve got us by the nut sack. Buying an EW is almost automatic at this point. Nobody thinks for a second that their device is going to hit 18 months without a major malfunction.

They’ve managed to turn buying a washing machine into a Vegas Hotel type situation where the up front price is $47 but in the forensic accounting you’re paying $160.

What’s it like being an amateur that is so clueless you actually think you have any capacity to analyze what is good, better, best for coding?

What’s it like working in a field where you are completely incompetent?

Love how you just completely skipped over the entire thrust of the comment and then churned out some blithe remark.

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Yeah not only are they not the tastiest, they’re the most disgusting. I eat a f****** ton of peanuts, and the bottom of the jar is always filled with the little nubs. Of course I eat them, but nothing gives you a sense of how horrible they taste than getting an entire mouthful at once.

And then there was this dude that was swallowed by a whale and he just chilled in the stomach and lit a little bit of a fire and roasted some marshmallows and then he was puked up or something later.

I feel you, I just also think the financial loss resulting from the respective decisions makes Ballers idiocy unrivaled.

There’s a big difference between killing momentum in a gaming concern vs what was lost by completely mismanaging, bungling, and squandering the opportunity to dominate the mobile computing market.

I’m not really disagreeing with you just looking at relative damages.

Can’t believe the number of tool boxes in this comment section say “oh gee, I can really see how this unnecessary feature improves my life because I don’t know how to breathe on my own or live”

e: Oh wow I found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kApzLuMw9_A

I wish I could have seen the presentation. I love the slides.

It’s what I’ve been saying for a long time, we are at the “We can easily drill to the center of the Earth, we’re simply waiting for the drilling machine to be complete” stage.

Hard to put a stupid offhand remark re vidja games on the same level as a man that handed mobile computing to Apple and later Google, who wasn’t even trying to compete, was just strategically releasing Android as a market disruptor.

C’mon… One more memory for the road…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMrhoOHNOrI

Nope. Ballmer is and always will be the all time king R. He’s the dude that had MS pilot away from handheld devices because nobody will ever use cell phones. This was when MS was the only credible mobile OS. He oversaw Vista, he oversaw 8, both of which were complete disasters.

Oh hell yeah, I knew all along that the steam link, the steam controller, that was a research project

And I have confidence that the new one will resolve a lot of the build issues. Cautiously optimistic

I’m so glad the steam controller is back.

I was an early adopter, I got my first steam link and steam controller in November 2015

I went through 17 steam controllers.

Seventeen.

Because they were built like absolute fucking shit, and my ear actually got attuned to the sound of the shoulder spring breaking. Crunch.

The first one I bought was totally DOA, the replacement was DOA with a broken button membrane, the replacement for that DOA with a malfunctioning back paddle. The fourth one, and first functional one I got lasted two months before the shoulder broke. There were ones I got new out of the box and the shoulder broke within an hour.

So I’m happy as fuck that it came back, but I’m so hesitant. I choose to believe that they have corrected the shitty build problem, but I guess I’ll find out!

No I’ll just block you, I can’t stand dealing with petulant little turd bags like you.

Yeah well it is.

Just go click the link and stop bullshitting.