Re:Medieval
by stingrae on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @11:56AM
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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.
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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.
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.