Why companies make their products worse
In the late 1980s IBM’s LazerPrinter, retailing at $2,395, printed ten pages per minute. In 1990 it launched the $1,495 LazerPrinter E, which was half as fast. But the new printer was not made using cheaper parts, or assembled by workers on lower wages. It had just been artificially slowed down. Why did IBM do this?
September 15, 2016 at 09:33PM
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