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Teenage Engineering's free computer case

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Re: Teenage Engineering's free computer case

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Sold Out. I was expected this to be a 3D print design people could grab for free.

Looking at the build PDF, you'd need a pretty large printer to do a single piece like that. Would need to split it into a few panels and have some sort of joinery or fasteners to make it fit on most consumer printers.

Re: Teenage Engineering's free computer case

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Sold Out. I was expected this to be a 3D print design people could grab for free.

At the bottom of the page, it looks like this is a giveaway for August, and that there were OP-1 giveaways in June and July. The OP-1 is their flagship synthesizer.

Makes me wonder if this is starting a press cycle for something they'll release for sale in the nearish future.

Re: Teenage Engineering's free computer case

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they have a branding problem - they are starting to being perceived like a snobby brand with ridiculously overpriced products sold as a status symbol - a Balanciaga of creative tech basically

so they are trying to put out some cheap good value products to signal a return of the original hacker ethos

Re: Teenage Engineering's free computer case

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post #6

Sold Out. I was expected this to be a 3D print design people could grab for free.

At the bottom of the page, it looks like this is a giveaway for August, and that there were OP-1 giveaways in June and July. The OP-1 is their flagship synthesizer. Makes me wonder if this is starting a press cycle for something they'll release for sale in the nearish future.

Not giveaways, but it was instead a "name your own price" discount that allowed you to pay as little as $1399 and as much as $9999 (your choice) for an OP-1. What's bizarre is throughout the month of July, the OP-1 Field was completely SOLD OUT. And it felt pretty galling to their customers they would have this "name your price" promotion continue into July with the same device as the previous month - most people expected them to switch up which item would get the discount. No one was able to purchase an OP-1 from July 1 - July 31 at any price on their site.

Re: Teenage Engineering's free computer case

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they have a branding problem - they are starting to being perceived like a snobby brand with ridiculously overpriced products sold as a status symbol - a Balanciaga of creative tech basically so they are trying to put out some cheap good value products to signal a return of the original hacker ethos

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Re: Teenage Engineering's free computer case

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they have a branding problem - they are starting to being perceived like a snobby brand with ridiculously overpriced products sold as a status symbol - a Balanciaga of creative tech basically so they are trying to put out some cheap good value products to signal a return of the original hacker ethos

They’ve always had those two tiers of pricing/products. That’s a read from a decade ago
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