Re:Your favorite brands got worse on purpose
by palmotea on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @12:47PM
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> Is there any reason to believe that the same carpet-pull won't occur with those brands?
No, but nothing's forever. The important piece of information is "is this brand good, right now, when I'm looking to make a purchase."
Re:Your favorite brands got worse on purpose
by JohnFen on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @12:58PM
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> The important piece of information is "is this brand good, right now, when I'm looking to make a purchase."
Right, which is the very thing that makes branding less than useful. You have to research everything before every purchase regardless of the brand precisely because the brand is no longer a good indicator of quality. That means that the brand doesn't mean much. Just because a brand signified high-quality goods yesterday doesn't mean it signifies the same today.
I thought the whole trick was arbitrage on the delayed awareness of reduced quality.