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I too would live in a pinterest-ready castle filled with toys but i dont have the stomach to rip off customers as shamelessly as TE is. The B&O of our generation.
It’s a luxury product! I’m guessing you just don’t enjoy luxury products. I don’t either, but then at least I can identify them. Some people like luxury.
I too would live in a pinterest-ready castle filled with toys but i dont have the stomach to rip off customers as shamelessly as TE is. The B&O of our generation.
I dunno, I have always believed that something is worth exactly what someone else will pay for it. Value has no objective correlate: it is a construct agreed upon by the seller and buyer. "Overpriced," "rip-off," and their ilk seem to me ad hominem attacks by people who don't meet at "sold."
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And yet everything they make sells out. Almost like it's worth the price.
I too would live in a pinterest-ready castle filled with toys but i dont have the stomach to rip off customers as shamelessly as TE is. The B&O of our generation.
Yep. Ostensibly there's nothing wrong with making pricy hipster audio equipment, but the rampant success of their marketing just makes me facepalm. People out there genuinely think the OP-1 is a $1000 product in 2023, which should inspire riots in the street. The OP-1 Field raising the price instead of lowering it is the last nail in the coffin for me. $800 is a pricy toy - $1500+ puts you in brand-new Octatrack terr…
Or maybe it is, in which case the entire modern economy is a scam. Ok I see where this thread is going from here.
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What are the options with similar portability, sampling, synthesis, fx, and multitrack recording, that you can buy new, and is not just an ipad or something, for under 300 dollars?
You've sorta missed my analogy. You can get a Novation Circuit, Electribe or even a brand-new Model: Samples for less than $300, but none of them are the "Star Wars Hotel" that the OP-1 is. I could show you a product that is exactly the same and cost's half as much, but people will balk at it complaining that it doesn't have a cow animation like the OP-1 does. They've "productized" an instrument that shouldn't cost m…
Would like to know when they'll start selling their pocket operator synthesizer and sequencer again. Rumors that a chip shortage has negatively impacted on their production, but who knows! It's been months now that they've been out of stock on their website - https://teenage.engineering/store/po-20/
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Seriously, comparing my OP-1 ($1400, made in china, buggy, bad QC, small and simple hardware) with my Analog Rytm mkII ($1700, made in sweden, reliable, impeccable QC, larger and much more complex hardware) - the margins on these TE gizmos must be insane .
There was nothing like the OP-1 at release and still nothing like it now. It is overpriced, but they arguably deserve it. They have the Apple business model.
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> I sell overpriced aluminum audio equipment And yet everything they make sells out. Almost like it's worth the price.
I dont think, A implies B.
With great marketing and lower volume production, you could probably make most overpriced, average quality widgets sell out.
Doesn't mean that because they're sold out therefore they were priced "right". (as subjective as pricing is)
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> I sell overpriced aluminum audio equipment And yet everything they make sells out. Almost like it's worth the price.
I would consider their Pocket Operators to be more than novelties if they would have provide god damn MIDI support