[TeMPOraL]

> In fact you could argue they were overbuilt compared to Western brands (at a cost of 100 - 150g) since they didn't want to deal with warranty claims.

That's the single strongest advertising for a product I've seen in a while.

As a customer, I also don't want to deal with warranty claims. Overbuilt = as it should be. Excessive optimization ("value engineering") = bad, waste of resources, and producer of trash.

(Excessive optimization also limits what you can do with a product, and is potentially unsafe, as normal use could exceed structural or operational limits of the product, breaking it, and potentially hurting the user.)

(Okay, I feel like I'm gearing for a long rant about sorry state of physical goods on the market, so I'll just stop now.)

[nextts]

Yeah why can't I get a trash can that lasts more than a year