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Manufacturer's Claims... If I were retired and wealthy (read: dreaming) I would love to love to pursue BS claims made by manufacturers. I bought a pack of batteries where the manufacturer claims a 10 year shelf life on their alkaline product. That was 2 years ago and 25% of the product has already leaked. Truly, I despise the necessary addiction we have for batteries. A generation ago, we were using Nickel Cadmium rechargeable batteries in many products. Although they could be recharged as many as 300 times, the drawback was the duration of the power they gave out. For me, it was about 1/5 the amount as an alkaline. I primarily used them for model aircraft. Expensive to buy, they could be used repeatedly for a year before they no longer would retain a full charge. Now, the industry is using Lithium Polymer batteries that are totally different. Smaller and lighter than the Nickel Cadmium batteries they replaced, they give a punch to electric model aircraft with power that no other battery can supply. Your cellphone has a Lithium Polymer pack. I've been checking out the news to see Samsung has accepted orders on their new Galaxy Note 7 cellphone. Some stores have them in stock but I'm told (as of Friday) pre-orders may take a few weeks to ship. Unfortunately that will change but not for the better. The latest report is some of those new phones have experience exploding batteries. I'm not faulting the phone just yet... it's could be related to defective chargers. Either way, Samsung has halted the sale on the Note 7 and recalling all that have been sold so far. Until this issue is resolved... and I'm sure it will be, Samsung can stand by their claim that the Galaxy Note 7 is the HOTTEST PHONE ON THE MARKET RIGHT NOW!  . . |
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The hottest phone on the market !
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Product Advertising is a mix of psychological polys, conjoined by 'wordsmith', who spend an inordinate amount of time, seeking wording to confound the consume while at the same time trying to impress upon the unaware mind, claims that are non substantiated... Yet, people are impressed by the selections of wording and the inferences of psychological plays for the promotion of excitement. Thus the consumer is blinded, not only are they so, they are dissuaded from doing their own physical and research checks to actually understand and know what they are purchasing. As to Phone, I don't go for the cycled programming of purchasing every new model they bring to market. I know basically what I use it for, and what I will likely not be investing a great deal of time using it for. Therefore, I'm personally not driven by the tinkered gadgetry claims. In many ways, the systems of the phone have a design which such capabilities is possible with some older models, EXCEPT, the software programming omits to give it accessibility to do what much of the hardware is already capable of doing. They simply lock out, and set a cycle to unlock certain capability and claim it to be pushed as some new and innovative product. One can look at the basics of an automobile engine, they ran well long ago, before everything was interconnected through a computer and triggered by micro-switches, based on computerized calculations. This is not to say its not good in a great many respects. It is to say, when this advent happened, it ruled out the individual repairing their own vehicles, it confounded it to a point, that not only can the individual not make the repairs, they cannot diagnosis the system to find out what is needed, without paying for their car to be connected at a cost, to a diagnostic machine. At some point, someone maybe years or even decades into the future society may push to began to sell software that can be USB connected to ones vehicle and they can find out this information. But, currently via usage of legality's strategy and warranty considerations, as well as influences promoted regarding safety standards, this prohibits such software from being sold to the average citizen. Today, we have "check engine" lights, which tells there is a problem. But what that problem is, the vehicles is not equipped for the software to specifically display this information to the automobile operator/owner via their dashboard's display. The Consumer should be aware, but as a society we have not the attention span, nor the patience to fully research the units we purchase, be it a car or other type of products. Today, Class Actions Suit's are mainly triggered by a death toll factors and %, that is factored to set market points for actions or non action by an actuary; who's fiduciary duty is to the loss mitigation aspects of the company who sells the product. Executive Denials is standard practice- therefore it is always an environment of "Buyer Beware".
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I just purchased a new car, 1992 Honda, still user friendly and I can actually fix things on the car.
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I have a 1999 Benz, there is not much I can do to repair it, because it has to be re-calibrated using a computer, therefore I can't just let anyone work on it, who does not have the skill and test equipment, for a great many things that might need repair. I do think I maybe should have kept the 1984 and 1989 Porsche's, because they were not so computerized as the cars today. I want to get a 2007 Porsche Turbo, but I already know, working on it is not an option for me, it will require being taken to a shop who understand the car. Long ago, when TV's were simple, I took parts from one and rebuilt another, but today, when the flat panels go out, there is basically not much of repair shops to be found. I simply just replace the unit. Yesterday, I saw a friends wheel assembly fall off his lawn mower, such things did not happen like that long ago, one could actually use it until the wheels wore our, and maybe even repair the engine, today, people simply replace the unit with a newer one. I remember with the computer, one could change out 'board" for sound, video and etc, but now, its an integrated mother board, I watch the tech's at work, throw the whole board away, when a problem happens because they say, likely the entire board is compromised, and trying to fix the video or sound or etc is more time consuming when its simpler to just replace the entire system. I have a cousin who "rebuild cars into custom cars", mostly cars from the early 1940's, 1950's, 1960's and even early 1970's, he does not deal with computer things. These older cars he can rebuild the entire car, including re installing the electrical wiring, but that is very difficult on the newer cars. Even now, items come with instruction to ship a product back to the manufacturer, many people don't even bother with it, because often the actual manufacturer is in a foreign country, and only the marketer is in the US. and likely they will simply send one a re-manufactured unit, I bought yesterday, a old Technics Digital Piano, it is built solid, but all the newer models are very light and certainly don't have the quality of housing this unit has. It is very heavy, I also have a old Fender Rhodes 73 Key, which is 'very heavy", but I have too a Casio Privia, and its in the shop because I broke 5 keys. It is not likely that a key will break on the Fender Rhodes, nor on the Technics. I could have bought a new keyboard for the similar price I paid for the Technics, I know the volume of effects are the newer ones is more quantity, but I just like the old Technics, for its solid nature. I have an Old Pre-CBS Stratocaster, and an Old Fender Precision Fretless also, Pre-CBS. They are simply in overall, but they were the top quality in its day, and still they are over good value. These things were made when people actually just played the instruments long before digital dominated.
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