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by dsr_ 3984 days ago
Dyson, like Bose, is a genius.

And Dyson, like Bose, is an extremely successful marketer.

Both companies have some very interesting engineering which is then translated into expensive consumer products that don't perform notably better than the competition, especially if you consider function (cleaning carpets, reproducing sound accurately) more important than features (no vacuum filter bag! Tiny speaker cubes!).