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Dude! You've triggered me!
So -- on topic (well... closer, at any rate): It dawns on me that companies (brands) like Fosi are selling products with "feature sets" that remind me of the Greatest Hits albums of major pop stars from the 1970s and 80s. Pick up a Greatest Hits album (e.g., Elton John's Greatest Hits) and invariably* it's missing one song that you really want. Solution: That song (Levon, in this case) will be on Elton John's Greatest Hits, Volume 2! You have to buy two different records. Capitalism!I am not complaining!
How about you?
Ahem. "On topic." Right.
Work with me, here -- the following is meant to be illustrative, if not allegorical. Don't attach any significance to numbers or details. I am not pickin' on Fosi in particular, either!These "throw products at the wall and see what sticks" brands will release a product (Product A) with, say ten features. You want them all, but there's one other feature (Feature 11) you really want -- and Product A doesn't have it!
Six months later, here comes Product A SE (special edition), with twelve features. Now it's got Feature 11, and two other features, but it deleted one of the original 10 you really wanted. But, it's only twenty dollars more than the Product A you already have, so you buy a Product A SE, too!
Eight months pass -- and, you guessed it: Product A Series II! Fifteen features -- all you want, and more besides! And only a thirty-five dollar premium over the original Product A!
Now you've got three of them.
Oh, and the resale value of the first two Product A variants is essentially zero.
oy.
EDIT: This is what students learn in business school, isn't it?
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* OK. almost invariably.
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-- my earlier screed may belie my intent: I am mostly trying to talk myself out of buying one of these Fosi things! 
