In regards to sales, I've seen that people will purchase inferior products at HIGHER prices in both my own company and from working at others, because they are already convinced that what they are buying is better without even trying the competition. For example, take phone systems. People purchase inferior key systems at higher prices that do less and cost more than voip, because that is what their business owner friends are using. I will make an effort to explain why they should go with the lower priced and higher quality solution, but sometimes they still want the inferior product. They both essentially do the same thing, produce dial tone, but lack of knowledge or want of acquiring that knowledge prevents them from making the better choice. Because they hear about choppy calls from their friends who also own businesses, they prefer the higher priced model that does less but is more "reliable." What they fail to understand is QOS or a second link(which you would pay for with a legacy system anyways) can avoid choppy calls. From a sales perspective, it doesn't make sense to argue with the customer if the legacy system has a higher profit margin anyway.
Purely your opinion on the quality of the device. There are a lot of reasons why you wouldn't go VoIP call wise. Maybe not local infrastructure wise but calling out wise definitely. There is also a cost of managing, installing, etc, the device...familiarity plays a huge role in this.
A specific to your example would be Cisco vs. other. There is a common saying "You don't get fired for buying Cisco" or you can replace that with "You don't get fired for using IBM", etc, etc. People will pay more for perceived reliability, branding, support, etc.
A bit off topic but if you're comparing legacy PSTN to VoIP..some people do like PSTN better..even though they don't realize some systems are transporting it over IP...part of it is because there isn't any quality loss. So g.711 vs. g.729a. You're basically comparing Toll Quality Voice vs. Business Quality Voice.
Right now the perception is that the 45g is the better product, and that 55g is "too heavy" for most people. This is because more people already own a 45g, not that there are tons of people who hate their 55g and told everyone else how much it sucks. People assume that because the 45g or variable feels good to them, adding an extra 10g could potentially ruin the great feeling. Therefore, having tried neither, a person would be much more likely to purchase the 45g, and be happy about it. The 45g owner will tell everyone else how great the 45g is without having tried the 55g, and more people will buy a 45g. It doesn't make sense for a company to push the 55g even if it is superior, because the 45g pretty much sells itself. It makes more sense to produce what people are more likely to buy, regardless of quality.
This is complete nonsense. First thing is, the company doesn't need to push either...55g is available in lower quantities because it isn't as popular thus it might've attracted a premium. You're making huge assumptions of what people think and why they've made the decision to justify why you think people aren't buying 55g. I think 55g fans need to remember, because 45g is more popular it doesn't mean 55g sucks and it doesn't mean people are saying it sucks. You are right though, they produce, in more quantity, what people are more likely to buy. Quality has nothing to do with it. It is what more people want. The fact is though, if people truly felt 55g was better, across the board, we'd be seeing more people buy it..we'd see more demand for the product. We'd see others make it..we see none of that..
Keep in mind we're comparing two products from the same company. So no brand bias or quality of build bias, reliability bias. We're talking about basically the same product but with slightly different weights to the switch.
Add one more thing...you don't think these companies have actually tested these devices? End user testing, etc? 55g was obviously made because some people want a heavier switch...but if they truly thought it was ideal wouldn't all of their testing show that?
Do you guys have a bachelor in Economics from legit institution? If not STFU
I do.
I don't mean to take this too off topic, but there is absolutely no good reason for anyone to purchase and install a new legacy phone system. You can use regular POTS lines, PRI, etc. with an IP PBX if you can't get a decent WAN link or an engineer who knows qos. Additionally, wideband audio codecs are much better quality than standard g.711 or its compressed cousin g.729 which has the same quality just with much lower bandwidth, so voip can actually sound better than standard phone lines instead of worse. As far as your reasoning about adds, moves, and changes, have you ever managed a legacy phone system? Having done Toshiba, Rolm, Panasonic, Samsung, and a few other random systems I can't think of right now, none of them come close to Cisco, Shoretel, Tekelek, 3cx, Asterisk, Freeswitch, or any other system I've touched as far as ease of management.
As far as my post being complete nonsense, read what I wrote again, then read what you wrote in this thread. You mostly agreed with what I said about Topre. Quality has nothing to do with sales of the 55g, and the popularity of the 45g doesn't mean the 55g is inferior. It just means that keyboard manufacturers are playing it safe by making new keyboards in 45g vs 55g, because that is what more people have tried. It says nothing about the quality of the switch.
Polymer, thanks for cutting through all the misinformed BS to get to the point.
Thanks for another useful post. Seriously, get off of deez nuts. Don't you need to go curl 500lbs with your pinky fingers?
