/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2010198
This corporation, that corporation, that name brand isn’t designing a corded tool to last 10,000 hours of use and a cordless tool to last 100 hours. They want most of them to work well through the warranty period, they’re not going to spend $$$ to make them last a lifetime if they can’t sell then to customers for $$$$. They will spend $$$$$$ in R&D to design new cordless tools with better performance and features because they can sell thousands of units at $$$ea. Meawhike they make a batch of plastic fantastic corded drills from time to time because there are alcoholic luddite painters who love Teal and need the cheapest possible Teal spinny thing to mix up paint. There may not be a large demand, but the Chinese plastic is cheap enough and they don’t want to waste all the tooling so they keep making them for people who need the bare minimum teal spinny thing.