"Roger Zoul" wrote:
Pat wrote:

:: What I think is that this design was planned...For example: the
:: first year the Foreman grills came out, there was no way to alter
:: the temperature settings and the grids were fixed. The next year,
:: the temperature control was introduced. Then, the removable grids
:: were introduced. I think this was planned from the get-go----a sort
:: of "arc" of the lifetime of the grill, just as TV shows have a
:: development arc of their stories.

:: Count me as a skeptic...

Why be a skeptic on a perfectly sound business model? What you're saying
doesn't sound far-fetched to me. They are into it to make money and we only
have to buy if we want to. Of course, they probably didn't think that far
ahead....they just realized they had something and looked for ways to
improve it to make even more $$$!

My take is that simpler products usually sell better than complex
products,
so at first they trimmed it down to a tiny set of features. Since it
sold
well that way they started adding features and variety. I don't think
the
arch was planned in advance because they couldn't have known the first
model was going to sell well. But once it did sell well the arch of
adding
features became obvious.

About the only one that surprised me was the grill on a pedestal that
tries
to replace the charcoal/propane grill.