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| dxl:
--- Quote from: Bud on July 23, 2022, 12:51:06 am ---The next iteration of the picture: one hand on the left, with the middle finger extended. --- End quote --- Well, it's there attempt to increase profits. In the 90ies, if you wanted decent test equipment, there was not much around these big companies like HP, Tektronix and others. But nowadays, a ~1000EUR Hantek scope is good enough for 97% of the people. The only people left buying from them are companies who are in the high end business or need them for certifying things. But that is only a very niche market and development costs for Keysight and others are high. So i don't think they earn much money with it. I'm always surprised that companies like Keysight, Tektronix & Co still exist. |
| Zenith:
--- Quote from: dxl on July 23, 2022, 07:58:38 am --- Well, it's there attempt to increase profits. In the 90ies, if you wanted decent test equipment, there was not much around these big companies like HP, Tektronix and others. But nowadays, a ~1000EUR Hantek scope is good enough for 97% of the people. The only people left buying from them are companies who are in the high end business or need them for certifying things. But that is only a very niche market and development costs for Keysight and others are high. So i don't think they earn much money with it. I'm always surprised that companies like Keysight, Tektronix & Co still exist. --- End quote --- HP and Tek were always about the very top end. When the HP8640A came out in 1973, it was $4,200. You could buy a pretty good new car for that much. Their scopes were priced well above what hobbyists and small repair shops were going to pay. HP got out of analogue scopes in the early 80s. HP and Tek concentrated on products other companies couldn't make. By the mid 80s there were a lot of companies making 20MHz solid state analogue scopes for $200 to $300 as well as better ones up to 100MHz. They were plenty good enough for most hobbyists, a lot of production line work and so on. HP's strategy was to go further up the food chain rather than compete with someone in Taiwan making a 20MHz scope. It worked, but you have to wonder if it wasn't going eventually to run out of steam. Also there were cultural changes after Bill and Dave retired, and the company became more bureaucratic, less genuinely customer focused and a lot more interested in marketing and PR claptrap. They also ventured into commodity markets such as printers and PCs. They did very well with printers, but it's a high volume business and it creates a different outlook. Another aspect to it may be going the general way of companies which were for decades innovative, created markets and were immensely successful, then they lost their way and fizzled out. RCA is a good example. |
| Mechatrommer:
a child thread of https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/keysight-officially-lost-the-plot-dont-buy-if-youre-a-hobbyist/ ? i dont have to read all, now i know what to put last in the list... errr... i dont even can afford any of those brand name stuffs, so i guess i'm safe down here :P |
| nomead:
--- Quote from: arcitech on July 23, 2022, 06:45:50 am ---I should have asked earlier today, when reporting what appeared to be clearly unintentional data exposure of other assets to my account, if I needed a Keysight Care subscription to let them know about a potentially major problem of their platform security. --- End quote --- They still seem to have issues with their database security. Couple years back when i was browsing my information i noticed lots of unfamiliar stuff. Just because my user info contained my work email address i got access to my employers asset inventory. When reporting the incident i could almost read between the lines how i was attacking Keysight. |
| pascal_sweden:
KeySight KeyNoVision KeyBS :) |
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