[amelius]

I always wonder why Molex makes only black and white connectors. This makes it needlessly difficult to use different connectors for different purposes. Same with phoenix contact but there it's mostly green terminal blocks. Is it so difficult to just offer some more colors?

[Aurornis]

They’ll make them in any color you want if you order enough.

Adding more colors would multiply their logistic and inventory requirements, which are already hard with so many different connectors multiplied by number of pin options. Multiplying that even further by number of colors that most people would never buy isn’t a win.

[amelius]

I mean, LEGO can make the same brick in many different colors. With much lower tolerances.

[Aurornis]

Making them in different colors is the easy part. Inventorying and selling them is the hard part.

LEGO knows exactly the demand for every color of every piece because they make the sets.

If they made 10 different colors of the connector, they’d still sell mostly white and black. Then the rest would sit on shelves and take up manufacturing line time and shelf space. Then they’d have to reprice them to sell off the colors that weren’t moving.

LEGO has none of these problems. Everything goes into a set or retail package they make. The individual loose bricks go into a limited number of options at a few retail stores.

[kalleboo]

Have you seen what LEGO costs though?

[ted_dunning]

You can solve that problem with a bit of heat shrink if you really want to.