jobsworth said:
Actually I find this converation funny. For the logest time here folks were complaining why didnt festool make tools using the imperial system. Now that they do everyone is complaining why dont them make metric.
to me it really doesnt matter. As I previously said I have a contractor calc app on my Iphone and Ipad and it converts back and forth in seconds.
People don't want an app, and it's not about converting or how hard it is. It's about that matter this situation shouldn't exist at all.
Selling both is the direct option/fix. Clearly if people had to wait a bit longer to get the tool metric people would be fine with that, but at least they would have a native tool, not a gender changed one.
Bigger picture goes back to corporate responsibility and stewardship. Most companies understand the value of doing the right thing and being a good "citizen". Thus why they do things like make efforts to be environmentally friendly, or said sustainably harvested trees, maybe push recycling, maybe get out front on social change issues. Basically they put the effort forth to be good exampled and be ahead of society. They were doing that. Suddenly going inch in a market flies in the face of that. While it's not right for other companies to slap inch labels on their tools even though they aren't metric in design. No others am I aware of that decided to take a step back. Those companies just haven't taken that last step forwards. Going from metric to inch is going backwards, along with forcing it on all people even when a lot of us are not metric and as a society we have been going metric for a long time, even when others just haven't noticed. It's poor corporate responsibility on a company to do that.
If a Germany car company pulled all their diesel/gas/electric cars from the US market and replaced them with Coal burning cars on the basis that the US still uses a lot of coal it would not go over well. You don't go backwards as a company even if there is no legal obligation to go any particular way.
It's not just about conversions, for some of us it's simply down to Ethics. Inch system is something that everyone should actively be eliminating, and 96% of the world has done a good job at it. And within the US inch based system are gone in most of our country/industries/etc, with just a thin last little bit, which happens to be the last little be people tend to see. Getting rid of inch based system entirely is very easy. Most people will instantly adjust as they are already doing it a lot. If tomorrow all road signs were converted, fuel pumps too, and with a push of a button our cars instrument clusters switched, the vast majority would go with it without a hitch or issue. We are basically a "Dagen H Day" away from doing it in this country. But soon as companies do as Festool did, or people go "just use this app, it's fine" we take step back from the switch. You encourage a baby to stand and then to walk. You don't show it how it can live its life crawling on the floor just because it falls a few times.
