• Echo Dot
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    299 days ago

    There’s no way that’s going to cost less than $500. With a mount that costs $300

    • @[email protected]
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      149 days ago

      “Attatch your iCamera with the exclusive white Apple iScrew (available at all Apple stores for only an additional $65)”

      • @[email protected]
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        79 days ago

        You meant $695 right? Apple has an image to protect, you know.

        (For the people mad at me: Mac pro wheels.)

      • @pdxfed
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        49 days ago

        Screw indeed

    • Encrypt-Keeper
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      -49 days ago

      $500 is not an unreasonable price for a router if it’s actually good and comes with a good warranty.

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        8 days ago

        There is absolutely no way in hell that the components inside a router can possibly add up to $500. Beyond a certain point things that are more expensive are just more expensive because they are, not because they represent better quality.

        Routers are commodity items, there is absolutely no way that a router costing $500 is demonstrably better than a router costing $100

        • Encrypt-Keeper
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          28 days ago

          Well almost nothing in this world is priced based solely on the cost of materials so I wouldn’t waste your time thinking in terms like that. And it is in fact the case that a $500 router is demonstrably better than a $100 router. A $300 UniFi router is pretty much the ground floor of decent router performance, and even then you’re severely lacking in warranty and support, and the software is subpar.

          Beyond a certain point things that are more expensive are just more expensive because they are, not because they represent better quality.

          This is true, but the “certain point” in this case is not $100. $500 is much closer to being that point, and even then that’s only if you’re thinking in the scope of a consumer router. Business class routers are thousands of dollars.