As a person that does electronic repair, let me just tell you what pieces of shit dysons are from a design standpoint.
They are the most over engineered, Fancy pants pieces of shit that are designed to sell, not to use.
Let me give you an example... One of the most popular posts on the Dyson YouTube page, is how to get the hose out of the machine. Yes that's right, they needed a fucking video tutorial for one of the most common complaints, people can't even use the goddamn things!
And then when you want to repair them, you are looking at 2 hours of meticulously dismanting a giant block of unnecessarily complicated Lego to access one tiny piece.
Dysons are absolute pieces of shit from every measurable perspective. With the exception of one thing: the motors do provide good suction, but they're nothing special, no more suction than any standard motor. They overhyped the electronic switching of the DC motor to the point that people actually believed it! It's a fucking standard DC motor!!!! Essentialy. A vacuum is not the correct application for this kind of technology.
Compare a Dyson's engineering with a simple device like a Bissell or a shark, which you can completely dismantle and reassemble in like 10 minutes.
You can't even replace a tiny hose piece on a Dyson without 2 hours, and many specialized tools.
Edit: to underscore what gigantic pieces of shit they are, I actually, through my electronics repair, got a $700 Dyson for free... Original owner effectively discarded it because it was plugged with a sock in the tube. Anyways, after I fixed it, I tried to use it in my apartment. I sold it. Fucking piece of unusable shite. As a person that does a ton of electronics repair and appliance repair and refurbishing, you start to develop a sense in your mind about what's going through the designer's head. And when I work on dysons, all I think about is how some jackass who knows AutoCAD, was given free rein to do what he wants, and you ended up with these spaceship looking lumps of garbage that nobody can use.
Edit 2: oh my God I can't believe I forgot about the fish hook connectors! On the power head of every upright Dyson that I've recently serviced... They are designed with hooks at the back that fucking catch on everything! A perfect example what I'm saying, some jack off who just learned AutoCAD, thinking he's a designer. Nobody puts backward-facing hook "styling" on a vacuum power head - except Dyson! They absolutely suck and I can go on and on but I'm going to stop now.
Edit 3: I can't stop. I forgot that my sister has run a local cleaning company for 20 years. She has rich-ass customers and she's been given Dysons by people with way too much money, which she immediately sold without opening the box. And she is absolutely NOT the only one... I can say this with surety as I often sell/fix for small cleaning companies. Professional cleaners -refuse- to use Dyson vacuums.
“I’ll be completely honest, quite often we work in an obsessive nature," says Jake. "We want this product. We want to make this thing. Sometimes before actually evaluating what the market response might be. And the market didn’t exist. So you’ve got to take those risks.”
So they did 0 market study, decided to build a gas station on the peak of a mountain and now marvel how nobody came.
Hey interesting, I have no awareness of the cooking posts either! I've been around for more than 2 years... I very quickly realized that this platform is a piece of trash... The only way to cut through to the good content is to block 50% of the contributors.
I must have blocked whoever posted those a long time ago and I never saw them.
Blocking users is a wonderful feature. Most people have absolutely nothing to say and you only dishonor yourself by falsely believing that a democratic discussion forum is useful.
I'm just embarrassed at the people who have decided to come and put on their "skeptic" hat to defend that place, while going out of their way to intentionally ignore evidence.
It reinforces a point I made earlier somewhere else on Lemmy... This platform is a joke-show filled with fools.
Think about opening your favorite social media app, and seeing 60% of the posts in support of something... And then when the day comes that thing receives about 1% of RL support.
I cannot intuitively grasp that I'm holding a ball in my hand that is 10 to the umpteenth power particles, each of which is made of smaller particles, each of which is everywhere in the universe at the same time all at once.
You say I'm whining... Where is the whining? I'm just calling it like it is... I meticulously explained my position and carefully thought out word that you just don't agree with?
Lick my dick. I'm not reading the rest of your sermon.
I've considered my participation, and I just give up
You need to understand that when nobody else contributes, there is literally no reason for me to be there
I can peacefully enjoy my music by myself and not bother sharing it with anyone. Because I literally get nothing out of it if I do
Most people are just lazy. They want to drink from the content fire hose that other people curate for them, but they don't really want to add anything. That is just the sad reality of online media sharing... Most people are just useless sponges, and it's not my job to wring out good content into their mouths.
People who don't share meaningful stuff are garbage and are a net negative. And the people who share expired, tired, garbagey old shit are almost worse. And that represents the bulk of contributors. Ever been to a science community here? Seen the "fresh" meme that hit the front page - an email from The Pirate Bay like 20 fking years ago?
It's just absolutely exhausting. And I'm not going to take up all the responsibility for a community, it's not my job.
There are some people who are huge contributors, but they don't take the time to actually consider if their posts are worth a shit.
I see the same recycled trash that is literally 20 years old. It's not a YOU problem.
I used to single-handedly keep the Jazz sub afloat, but I've given up, I'm not going to be the guy that posts 100 pieces of quality content, and nobody else even bothers... Or when they do, it's the same tired, recycled shit that's already been posted.
I'm not trying to have a big hate on for Dyson but
They patented a new DC switching motor
It had the potential to revolutionize so many industries
Instead of licensing the tech out ... They decided to make vacuums and hand dryers
The company is run by imbeciles