Here, belatedly, is a picture-perfect example of the kind of (protracted) misinformation campaign that manufacturers have, and do, engage in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPqpuTO6Kd4
If you can watch the whole way through, you can see the story unfold in front of you. Although the video is by no means meant as indictment, per se, of this sort of behavior, you should be able to see why I for one am not automatically willing to accept at face value what any given maker has to say about their product or design. The long, slo-mo dance presented here involves certainly the initial ignorance or misapprehension on the part of the consumer, but also the deliberate manipulation of that ignorance on the part of the manufacturer - even if that can stem, quite understandably, from the maker's unwillingness to surrender technical discussion to their competition. But, this sort of thing is why I do not take, nor ever will take, nor should ever be expected to take, a manufacturer's explanation simply at face value, no matter how respectfully they may present it. This does not mean that all makers are evil and therefore must be burned at the steak, it just bears outs caveat emptor. But, a certain amount of these behavioral motives here are necessarily going to be baked in.
The harder any manufacturer works at being polished at appearing to make all the above out to be a non-issue, the more suspicious of their ultimate motives I typically become. In general, there can be reasons to doubt such highly polished explanations as well as those that are not nearly trying so hard or certainly even those who offer no explanation or rationale at all. But, the video happens to be an excellent encapsulation of human nature in the marketplace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPqpuTO6Kd4
If you can watch the whole way through, you can see the story unfold in front of you. Although the video is by no means meant as indictment, per se, of this sort of behavior, you should be able to see why I for one am not automatically willing to accept at face value what any given maker has to say about their product or design. The long, slo-mo dance presented here involves certainly the initial ignorance or misapprehension on the part of the consumer, but also the deliberate manipulation of that ignorance on the part of the manufacturer - even if that can stem, quite understandably, from the maker's unwillingness to surrender technical discussion to their competition. But, this sort of thing is why I do not take, nor ever will take, nor should ever be expected to take, a manufacturer's explanation simply at face value, no matter how respectfully they may present it. This does not mean that all makers are evil and therefore must be burned at the steak, it just bears outs caveat emptor. But, a certain amount of these behavioral motives here are necessarily going to be baked in.
The harder any manufacturer works at being polished at appearing to make all the above out to be a non-issue, the more suspicious of their ultimate motives I typically become. In general, there can be reasons to doubt such highly polished explanations as well as those that are not nearly trying so hard or certainly even those who offer no explanation or rationale at all. But, the video happens to be an excellent encapsulation of human nature in the marketplace.