Inside the Hardware Product Everyone Loves to Hate | by Ben Einstein | Medium
Editor’s note: As our Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Eclipse Ventures, Ben brings a founder’s perspective and his passion for hardware design to our discussions. Here, he continues his smashingly popular product-teardown series. There’s a single product category that is universally despised by nearly every technology-using human on Earth: the printer. While I’ve certainly had my fair share of disagreements with printers over the years, I’ve come to be increasingly curious about a set of intersecting qualities that don’t seem to exist anywhere else: As with any product that doesn’t quite make sense, the best way to understand is to take it apart. With my startup hat on, I’m always wondering why a small company hasn’t yet been able to unseat the big players in the printer space (Canon, Brother, HP, Epson, etc.). This post makes it clear why that is so very difficult. Whenever I tear down a product (I have a bit of an addiction), I start with scouring eBay for broken versions on the cheap.
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