Not sure you and I had this conversation before… if yes, please pardon the repetition, but anyway please allow me to reiterate:
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Anduril will not make a flashlight significantly more expensive (0.3% at most according to my data), and it could in fact probably make it less expensive to produce than a non-Anduril light.
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For any light implementing Anduril the way I suggest (ie, with the normal manufacturer UI coded in place of Anduril’s “simple” mode), the fact that there’s Anduril in there is totally invisible for any non-enthusiast buyers that don’t know or don’t care what Anduril is, or the eventual enthusiasts that don’t want to use it.
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The number of flashlight enthusiasts that love Anduril is WAY LARGER (over 5x) than the number of more “conservative” ones that would avoid it at all costs even after considering 1) and 2) above; And those 5x is presuming the Anduril light would cost “reasonably more” than it’s non-Anduril equivalent, which as shown at 1) above, is not even the case – so the gain in sales a manufacturer would have by offering Anduril is probably even larger than 5x the number of sales it would be losing for the Anduril avoiders. And more sales would bring in larger scale production and therefore lower costs, which would reinforce 1) above and lower costs even more, in a virtuous circle.
So, having Anduril everywhere would be a win for the manufacturers (by improving sales and reducing costs and improving market share and profits), and another win for the vast majority of enthusiasts that do enjoy Anduril, and a 3rd win for the non-enthusiasts as they will then (at the very least) enjoy the exact same (due to 2)) flashlights than they would otherwise (due to 1) and its interaction with 3)).
And even the Avoid-Anduril-At-All-Costs group would be winning by getting cheaper flashlights and, as per 2), the fact that these flashlights have Anduril would be almost completely invisible to them, or if they just hate Anduril so much they can’t stand it even hidden under a long and almost impossible to activate by chance click sequence, they can always reflash these exact same lights with an HEX compiled with #undef USE_ADVANCED_UI which I (or any other Anduril enthusiast) will happily produce for them.
Come on, man, relax and enjoy the Anduril revolution! 