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Re:Medieval by stingrae on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @11:56AM (#41182631)
This is the cost of doing business when you have to pay for engineering (and tooling + certification) on niche products. Nothing they do is really designed for mass market.
Re:Medieval by groby_b on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @01:09PM (#41183299)
Uhuh. You can get a desk reasonably close to this for $80 at IKEA. I love TE, a lot, but that desk is just shamelessly milking the audience.

More power to them, they created an audience who wants to pay that, but you're not paying for engineering here.

Re:Medieval by eweise on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @02:12PM (#41183842)
Desks, drum machines, synthesizers, mixers are not really niche products. They take fairly common items, and create a version that appeals to hipsters but is not as useful as cheaper options. Example $2k for this little synth https://teenage.engineering/store/op-1-field which wouldn't appeal to most synthesizer enthusiasts. Its more like office desk toy.