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I don't personally understand why you would use their hardware for anything considering each of their devices have industry leading competitors that people like more.

I think you have to just want to buy their hardware. They're lifestyle devices.

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These devices are ostensibly toys for rich people, but really more like advertisements for their product design services. You're supposed to see the TP-7 as a CEO of a hardware startup and want to hire Teenage Engineering to design the shell to go around your prototype.

What have they designed besides the Playdate?

The Ikea Frekvens line: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/newsroom/range-news/get-the-party...

Also the Nothing Ear (1). I don’t know if they’ve designed their phone too, but it at least follows their design language.

There's a whole page dedicated to it: https://teenage.engineering/designs/

Some notables:

  The Playdate (as mentioned)
  The Ikea Frevens series
  Impossible I-1 instant camera
  Mayku 3D printer

Oh man I'd buy that camera roll if it were Fuji Instax Wide or Square. Polaroids fim sucks so much these days but there aren't many good camera bodies for Fuji Wide/Square

To me, prioritizing technical specifications of equipment is no lesa lifestyle choice than prioritizing aesthetics or kinesthetics.

It is no less an expression of some cultural values and rejection of others.

The 128 Megaman brought me pure joy beyond the shelf price of $90. Those sounds are hard to just find in a patch bank.

With that being said, just about everything else, you're right.

I have the PO-128 and it's mediocre versus running LSDj or Nanoloop on a Game Boy if chiptune and programmability for self-expression is what you want.

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