• Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Mate, it’s a prototype, their first product. If that design works well and will be mass produced the price goes down. With possibly a budget option released later that actually makes sense to buy.

    A lot of companies started with the luxury version of a product and then later offered budget versions after showing everyone they could deliver.

    Linus not only dissed them (after “testing” the product on the wrong GPU) but also sold off their only prototype. Otherwise they could have sent it to another reviewer to do a proper test.

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      1 year ago

      You wanna talk about poorly run businesses? Why are they sending out their prototype if they only have one and it’s so important? At least make two of them.

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        1 year ago

        When your defense of LMG boils down to “anyone would be stupid to trust them with something important”…

        And yes, it was stupid to trust them and I hope no one else does going forward. But it doesn’t change that LMG were the ones to screw up and did so in so many ways it’s comical. Either they don’t know what they are doing, don’t care, or some combination of the two.