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Re:HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper... by sskates on Sunday February 13, 2011 @08:27PM (#2214812)
The real point is that blog posts like this make your company look bad. Consumers are fine with you jacking up the price so that the cost of production and R&D isn't significant, but if you do anything to intentionally make a product worse then people will really get riled up, as it looks like you're intentionally destroying value.
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Re:HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper... by chris11 on Sunday February 13, 2011 @08:34PM (#2214836)
It may make some people regret buying the high-end product, but it makes the lower-end product more attractive. And besides, other companies get away with doing this all the time. In fact one of the selling points of the dual-core Amd phenom II chips is that you have a decent chance of easily turning it into a quad-core chip for free.
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Re:HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper... by narag on Monday February 14, 2011 @08:14AM (#2216604)
...as it looks like you're intentionally destroying value

Does it looks like? They're doing it!

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Re:HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper... by georgieporgie on Monday February 14, 2011 @12:21AM (#2215415)
I suspect that the intersection of headphone purchasers and blog readers is low enough that there will be negligible impact on their sales.
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