It costs a lot to build bad products.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on a quality basis with an established product.
People buy products if they're better.
Making things open-source brings the cost down.
It's harder than ever to build an enduring company. As soon as a product strikes a nerve with customers, competitors emerge globally because the costs to start are so low.
It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.
It never ceases to amaze me what it takes to develop and bring to mass production a product.
I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.
What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
It's easy to design expensive products. But there's that product democracy that I believe very strongly in to make something affordable for almost anybody that would want to use it.