[tossmeup]

That rap was accurate. Better sound through marketing and douche-baggery IP / anti-competitive behavior.

Bose implementations used cheap parts and cut corners, but charged premium prices by being the original MonsterCable. Bose stifled competition and innovation with pre-existing art IP. He also dicked people around with trademark because he was an asshat.

He was only one step better than a patent-troll in terms of his effects on the industry (because he actually did deliver a product). Fuck him and his Beats by Dre bullshit sucker-identifying crap.

Bose was drowning start-ups in the bathtub, let alone badgering any real competition. It's an affront to HN for his death to be atop the list without him being pilloried as a pariah.

[rallison]

Indeed. Let's not forget that Bose sued Consumer Reports in 1971 for publishing a review that described a Bose system as one that "tended to wander about the room" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Reports#Bose