Re:GoPro cuts workforce, changes sales strategy
by GuB-42 on Friday April 17, 2020 @12:34PM
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Another advantage of selling crippled high end products as low end is that they can sell defective hardware.
For example, if there is a bunch of cameras with defective GPS units, they can still be sold on the low end segment, where that feature is disabled.
Re:GoPro cuts workforce, changes sales strategy
by madengr on Thursday April 16, 2020 @09:01PM
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The base cost of a Keysight Field Fox spectrum analyzer is $6k. You then enable $60k worth of licenses on it, but all the hardware is already in there. Pretty crazy.
Re:GoPro cuts workforce, changes sales strategy
by blackguardx on Friday April 17, 2020 @12:41PM
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I used to work at Keysight's spectrum analyzer R&D group. They do this to simplify their manufacturing logistics and to try to get volume production efficiencies.
The monthly volume of any one particular SKU is so low that if they didn't combine all the models together, they would essentially be custom making everything.
Re:GoPro cuts workforce, changes sales strategy
by pests on Friday April 17, 2020 @01:58AM
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The price of things is not always related to the cost of it's components.
Re:GoPro cuts workforce, changes sales strategy
by throwlaplace on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:47AM
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>The price of things is not always related to the cost of it's components.
that's besides the point entirely - we all already know that an item's price isn't just a reflection of BOM. here the point is that they're literally just inflating the price arbitrarily.
It's not a bad thing. As a consumer I can buy a cheaper product and not have to buy features I don't need.
People seem to forget that companies need to make a profit to stay in business. I don't care if GoPro stays or goes but it has to at least break even to stay around to produce their products.