A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)

Re:A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10... by coldtea on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @03:34PM (#20823224)

>A Toyota Camry and a Porsche will both get you to work.

That's not the practical utility people want out of a Porsche. They want the practical utility of impressing people (including the other sex), appearing well off and sporty, etc.

Those are also practical considerations - just not the first that come to mind when one thinks of cars (although not very far).

(Practical as in: not aesthetic but with real life impact on real life goals).

>Apple products are relatively cheap to produce

So they say, but e.g. other manufacturers tried for the first 2-3 years years to get a tablet with the specs of the iPad, and still couldn't get theirs at a lower price...

Or how if you add the same SSD/video/memory/CPU/etc options to a PC laptop, you get close to the same prices. I know cause I've tried to build an equivalent Lenovo (and a few other brands) and it gets so close I might as well just get the MBP.

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Re:A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10... by im3w1l on Thursday August 29, 2019 @02:13AM (#20827097)

> They want the practical utility of impressing people (including the other sex)

And it's not gonna do that if the CEO shits on his own product. Things that are good because they are good are less vulnerable than things whose value comes from being impressive because of marketing.

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