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Comment by lotsofpulp

4 years ago

If people were willing to pay for them, why would they have been made free in the first place?

Probably because it’s cheaper to give them away than to keep repairing haphazardly designed vending machines. Maybe they should just make them like the snack vending machines.

  • Based on the fact that newspaper businesses had many, many decades to come up with a better machine, I would assume the cost of developing this machine is not worth it.

    • That’s sort of ex-post-facto reasoning though. By that logic, there’s nothing that could save the newspapers, because they had decades to do it and they didn’t.

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