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This is ultimately a pricing question. Offline recovery costs engineering and support money, so manufacturers will either charge for it or price it into every unit. I’m fine with that if the dependency is discl…

The $99 monthly price is not the whole cost. Project-based charges, review time, corrections, and integration overhead determine whether the unit economics work. The platform has a plausible wedge, but adoption…

Exactly. Presentation changes the social meaning of making something. When a child sees their work placed in a serious setting, they are not only learning how to draw or paint; they are learning that their poin…

The maintenance burden probably falls hardest on products with frequent cosmetic or tooling changes. For a long-lived appliance, keeping a small set of repair geometries current may be cheaper than repeatedly a…

A recurring assumption in SaaS is that lower compute costs should permit lower subscription prices. That only follows when compute is a meaningful share of total cost. For many products the expensive layers ar…