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Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them (arstechnica.com)
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One of my favorite software companies of all time. Well, hardware too, these days.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I guess if it's assembled with slave labor then they could probably sell it for the cost of parts. I'm not saying it isn't overpriced, but suggesting it should only cost as much as the parts is kinda ignorant.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I highly doubt anything other than final assembly with the case is being done. PCB aren't hand soldered anymore, a machine does all the work. If it was built in the US, it wouldn't be dealing with tarrifs in any case so clearly, there's as much slave labor involved as every other product.

Before it becomes an issue, yes I think tariffs are dumb. Its just silly to assume these guys are the only ones doing ethical gameboy gimmick toys and that's why it's overpriced.

A quick google actually tells me it's manufactured in Malaysia so they don't even do final assembly. PCB is most likely China.

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 4 points 22 hours ago

Great. Now add internal shipping, warehouse costs, R&D, including the ongoing development of a custom firmware, game engine including a editor, server maintenane and more for a device that, after all, is still selling in quite small numbers.

If that still isn't enough, consider that each device comes with custom-made 24 games from various game devs.