Comment by ironmagma
4 years ago
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.
4 years ago
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.
That is not the reasoning.
The reasoning is for decades, newspapers sold many papers and made a decent amount of money, compared to today.
Therefore, the incentive to create better machines that allow them to sell more and prevent theft was higher then than today, and yet they did not.
Either the technology did not exist back then, or more likely, it simply was not worth the cost of better machines for the additional revenue.
Therefore, if it was not worth it back when newspapers were in high demand, why would it be worth developing today at a fraction of the demand?
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