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I don't understand the Dyson hype. Their products seem over-engineered, over-priced, and under-performing... On top of which Dyson himself is strongly pro-Brex

• robotmay 8y ago
  Yep. He also moved all his production out of the UK to Malaysia.
• gambiting 8y ago
  Yep - I'm trying to discourage everyone I can from buying Dyson products because of it.
• dovik 8y ago
  In 3 words : No. Vaccum. Bag.
  • raverbashing 8y ago
    Bagless vacuums aren't better. Really Cleaning dust out of a bagless vacuum is bad if you have allergies. Buying the bags is an annoyance but it is the lesser one.
    • cududa 8y ago
      Just get a subscription to them on amazon and you never have to think about it outside the 4 minutes it takes you to change the bag
    • joering2 8y ago
      I seen Henry and Hetty being used on a cruise ship and fell in love with a little happy blue guy. Too bad you cant get any of the line in USA. I dont think they have representation in North America.
    • gonvaled 8y ago
      I have been using a bagless vacuum for some years (no Dyson), and I am quite happy. You have to clean it sometimes, and it is a bit messy, but you can do that in the sink after emptying it in the bin, so it's not like dust is going to be flying around. I am happy to avoid buying and changing bags.
    • dovik 8y ago
      A lesser one excepted when your bags were retired from market -> need to buy a new vacuum even if the older one was still functional.
  • newnewpdro 8y ago
    That is not unique to the Dyson brand.
    • yetihehe 8y ago
      Don't know how it looks in dyson vacuums, but in every brand I've tried, bagless vacuums are a disaster. They either don't filter that good, require special cleaning or both. One bagless vacuum I've recently used was designed so awfully, I joked that it should come with another vacuum to clean it. From what I've seen in pictures, Dyson's designs are much more easy to clean.
      • sofon 8y ago
        Pretty much all the Dyson's I've used have had very poor suction and hardly pick up anything. The Toshiba bagless cleaners work well in my experience.
        • stevekemp 8y ago
          It's funny I had a few friends locally raving about how good dyson vacuum-cleaners were. I thought my existing vacuum was just fine, but I borrowed an upright from a friend for a few weeks and when I did I was hooked. I started out by vacuuming the floors with my existing machine, and used tried the dyson afterwards. The amount of stuff it sucked up was very surprising. Sure the dysons are a lot more expensive than the generic machines, but I have to say that I loved mine. It's only because I live abroad now, and I don't have carpets that I've not looked into getting another.
    • dovik 8y ago
      It was. Other brands started to sell bagless vacuums only after Dyson first success. For other brands, bags was as profitable market.
  • dirktheman 8y ago
    We have a Numatic Henry and it runs circles around the most expensive Dyson. While the Dyson seems more powerful on paper, in reality the Henry sucks up more dust, grime and pet hair. Our Henry is 18 years old, survived falling down the stairs, a complete house remodel and basic family life with kids. The bags only need to be changed a few times per year, and changing is a breeze. Compare that to the Dyson where you have to empty the bin every other time you use it. Oh, and the Henry doesn't seem to lose power as the bag gets fuller since the motor is placed on top of the cleaner. Every part can be replaced (and are still available, for a 18 year old vacuum cleaner!) but as I said, they're nearly indestructible. And cheaper than a Dyson. There's a reason why professional cleaners use them, I guess.
    • fredley 8y ago
      Henry owner here: totally agree. Also, unlike a fancy Dyson, it's designed to be bashed around, yanked around and generally abused. It's the Nokia 3310 of vacuums. And if a part breaks, because they're used commercially it's cheap and easy to replace.
• d--b 8y ago
  Brexit means more expensive cars from abroad. The guy wants to make a UK car for the UK market, I guess... We'll know when they don't make a version with the steering wheel on the left :)
• kitd 8y ago
  Likewise. Brexiteers hold him up as a paragon of British engineering and entrepreneurship. But he took an already-solved problem and "re-imagined" it with twice the cost and power requirement. I'll stick with my Vax, thx.
  • varjag 8y ago
    Dyson sucks better than Vax!
    • vixen99 8y ago
      Don't know about Vax but my 17-year old Dyson performs just as efficiently as when I bought it. I notice that most of the new cleaners in the market in my region appear to copy Dyson's cyclonic separation idea - because it works!
      • raverbashing 8y ago
        > Dyson's cyclonic separation idea It's not his idea, though he was probably the 1st one to use it in vacuums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclonic_separation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclonic_separation
  • frou_dh 8y ago
    What I'm getting from you two is that you're desperate to insert Brexit into any conversation.
    • timrichard 8y ago
      Par for the course with identity-politics bores, I'm afraid. It would be the same if the story was about JCB. Terrible idea to listen to the tiny minority of British companies who actually manufacture things the world is enthusiastic about buying :-)
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• woolvalley 8y ago
  They make pretty good handheld vacuums. I have a miele upright also, but nowadays tend to use the dyson v7 for a lot of quick stuff instead.
• notahacker 8y ago
  They're the Apple of the vacuum cleaning world. They were good at marketing, launched baglessness as a major new innovation which allowed them to completely dominate the market until everyone else copied it, their self-consciously different style also found many imitators, and since then the overengineering has been the brand's chief selling point.
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• gandalfian 8y ago
  But they have "digital" motors. A concept that hurts my brain. But seriously he probably just wants to be like Bosch. A desirable place to buy you electronic components. Otherwise reinventing cars is what sunk Sinclair...
• fredley 8y ago
  James Dyson pitches himself as a sort of British Steve Jobs. His products take commercial fan technology and put it in consumer tech, with lots of silvery plastic, and sell for a lot of money. Engineering wise it's nothing particularly special. They have done well out of sueing competitors who do similar things. Sadly it's a company that invests more in boasting about how great it is at engineering as it does in actual engineering. There is no way in hell a Dyson electric car is going to have any impact on any market. This is more of a PR stunt than an indication of any real product. It's more about building the brand (of Dyson and Sir James Dyson) than anything.
  • vixen99 8y ago
    'James Dyson pitches himself as a sort of British Steve Jobs'. Does he or is it others who say this? Where is the quote? As to the supposed comparison by others, someone from Dyson said '“Apple makes a stylistic product; we don’t have any designers at our company. We start out with the internals first and then match the style to it.”