Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?
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#2For us US folks, Amazon.jp will send you the unobtanium Makita tools you know you want.... like the Makita battery-operated microwave.
Shout out to TTI for keeping Ryobi cheap, cheerful, and a good value. Not my cup of tea, but their stuff is reasonably fine for the price.
Re: Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?
#3Not sure where “Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?” in the title came from.
> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is.
Re: Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?
#4Same with all consumer white goods electronics: microwave ovens, washing machines, refrigerators, toasters, etc. most white label by a few conglomerates with the same Chinese factories.
The "high quality ones" that have their own R&D and manufacturing, are very expensive and out of reach for a lot of people.
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#5The bottom line is that you can also compete by investing in quality.
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#6Not sure where “Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?” in the title came from. > Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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#7I don’t know if it’s by LLM generation or just contemporary style, but I find the style of omitting the subject from sentence after sentence after sentence unreadable. Once is fine. Six in a row is insufferable.
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#8Tangentially, Arrow T50 stapler used to be a tank but now it's wet shit. Apparently they changed to a new factory.
So when your reputation is big you can slack on the product. Or is that naive? Is it the natural progression for all products?
Like in that movie Brasil. The food is awful but the illustration of the food is wonderful.
Re: Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?
#9For us US folks, Amazon.jp will send you the unobtanium Makita tools you know you want.... like the Makita battery-operated microwave. Shout out to TTI for keeping Ryobi cheap, cheerful, and a good value. Not my cup of tea, but their stuff is reasonably fine for the price.
The Makita US product line seems ludicrously big to me. I don’t really get what this article is throwing down when it comes to Makita.
Re: Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?
#10Tangentially, Arrow T50 stapler used to be a tank but now it's wet shit. Apparently they changed to a new factory. So when your reputation is big you can slack on the product. Or is that naive? Is it the natural progression for all products? Like in that movie Brasil. The food is awful but the illustration of the food is wonderful.
Old ones sell on eBay for not a lot.