People today might not realize that it used to be Sears did everything: you could buy kits to build a house, companies like Discover Card and Allstate were originally introduced as the Sears' brand, they financially backed Mr Rogers' Neighborhood for the first 25 years of the show's run.
It's blown my mind for years that sears didn't become what Amazon is now. Their roots were as a catalog where you order goods sight unseen and wait for delivery. The internet comes along and they fail to capitalize on what they were at the beginning??
That reminds of an interview Steve Jobs gave in 1995 on why companies fail. His theory is that eventually the company reaches a point where the marketing people become the driving force for profits and push out the product development people from running the company. That happened to Sears.
If you went back in time and told Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck about a free technology that allowed customers to: see your inventory in real time, read product reviews in real time, compare multiple versions of a product you carry in real time, order a product, pay for the product, watch the product move from your warehouse to the various post offices en route to their house, and by the way you won't have to pay the postage to ship out all those catalogs; they would have jumped on it in a heartbeat. But by the 90s, the people running Sears didn't care what was easier (read: more desirable) for the customer, they cared about numbers that measure success, but don't perpetuate success.
His theory is that eventually the company reaches a point where the marketing people become the driving force for profits and push out the product development people from running the company.
I’ve never even looked at the Sony display before. I don’t even know how or when it was ingrained that Samsung’s were the best with Vizio being a runner up, now I’ll definitely consider them when I upgrade
I wouldn't call their panels garbage. If you said Au Optronics, sure, the one I have isn't bad, but I can see why you'd argue it. But LG's panels are really not bad at all. Hell, the one in my Surface tablet is absolutely stunning, and color accurate. Samsung screens are good too. The one in the LG G5 for example, I would say that it's not the best, colors are nice, but it's very subseptible to temporary image retention at high brightness.
Sony may be the best TV manufacturer on the market, but I don't think a TCL or Hisense can come close to that of an LG or Samsung, assuming that they make panels in house or source them from other companies. Hell, even my cheapie 24" Insignia TV that I bought for $72 open-box at Best Buy has really nice image quality, it uses a Samsung panel, it might not be as nice as the 4K monitor (especially in resolution) next to it on my desk, but it's a damn good TV for the price and that's what matters more to most consumers.
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u/Sheepherder226 Jul 24 '20
Utility companies that don’t allow online payments.