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| Jester:
From my perspective it feels like the world is becoming unglued. If I purchase anything with that label it it will be older with an available schematic. |
| Bud:
Such shifts are often much more prosaic and caused by changes in company's leadership. Looking at Keysight news, they had two major changes in 2020 - their CTO retired and a new one was appointed, and they got a new head of Electronics Measurements division. "Corporate values" are for regular employees. Big bosses do as they feel when they wake up in the morning. |
| mikeselectricstuff:
Does anyone have specific reports by continent? My impression from previous reports was that it was mostly a Europe issue, presumably to avoid liabilities under EU consumer laws. Anyone from the USA been told they won't be supported/supplied? |
| floobydust:
Nobody at Keysight would stick their neck out to explain this anti-customer policy. Whomever came up with it needs to get off the golf course and issue a statement. It just looks terrible. Keysight's use of the word "professional use", many of us here are licensed engineers and compare with educational users - not buyers - but amateurs and students using the products. Some kind of crime? The best excuse I could come up with is KS blocking sales of multimeters to terrorists but Ref. the $6.6M fine Keysight, 15 of 24 export violations selling to the commies. "Multi Emitter Scenario Generation (MESG) software, which is capable of generating multiple signals needed to test radar equipment by simulating electronic warfare threat scenarios" against Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). You lousy rotten hobbists and small fish in the pond. We only sell where the big money is even if unethical. |
| nctnico:
--- Quote from: madires on December 11, 2021, 11:54:44 am ---They all go for the 'if it's broken buy a new one' profit maximization - can't make that much money with service. --- End quote --- It isn't. In the end it is all up to the consumers. For example: In the early 90's you could phone someone half way around the world and the sound quality was like the person was sitting next to you. It was expensive though. But then the telecom market become more and more liberated and cheaper phone companies popped up. Their sound quality was awful and often you needed to repeat what you said 3 times before the other party got what you where saying but consumers fell for it by big numbers. In the end the established phone companies had to lower their service level in order to remain competitive. IOW: what Keysight (and Tektronix) are doing is what we have voted for through our wallets by buying the cheaper Chinese gear. |
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