It was announced a month ago and seems to handle the design criticism in this blog entry. If it works as well as demonstrated will put it in a new class of vac.

Yes, it is heavy, and corded, but it is a beast, and still amazed at how much dust it gets every week.

I have to admit that I am not impressed at all by the latest Dyson cordless versions, including the new Dyson PencilVac (https://www.dyson.com/discover/innovation/new-machines/penci...).

Dyson's brand is to be technologically forward. It is supposed to look like the future, which is why the angular mix of colors works for the brand.

Bosch, I have no idea what their brand aesthetic is, or what they are trying to say.

This doesn't mean that the Dyson is better than Bosch, or any other competitors, just that brand does come into the equation as well.

Still some of the criticism holds, such as the terrible wall charger.

Isn't that the whole point of them? Instead of imparting enough heat energy to evaporate all of the water on your hands, they just push it off which is much faster and more energy efficient. How would they work better than regular dryers without doing that?

I think their brand isn't just about tech itself, but the utility exploring novel tech can drive.

The humdinger should be a more modern replacement, but it sucks. No trigger, no fun.

It has a headlight.

* The industrial design of Dyson products is generally great. I don't think they poke you or anything like that. They even have nice affordances like all the things you can use being red. Contrast that with my terrible Shark where everything is black. Took me a good few seconds to find the bin release button. It also has an atrocious UX - a slow on/off button instead of a trigger, and an amazingly useless "smart power" feature that just varies the power almost completely randomly as you vacuum.

When I worked there all the vacuum guys were worried about Shark because their pickup is apparently better. They needn't have worried because their UX is so abysmal. Although I guess in fairness Which doesn't know UX exists.

* Some of the criticisms of the tech are valid, e.g. the hand dryers spraying water everywhere (they easily erode painted walls and now they generally install them only on tiles). But those are just flaws of the tech, they don't negate the fact that the hand dryers are much better than the standard cheap ones. He quotes the claimed hand drying time for a cheapo dryer as being close to an air blade but anyone that has ever used one knows how much of a lie that is. The washing machines did damage clothes but apparently the main reason they stopped making them was a manufacturing issue with the drum.

* I don't think anyone really believes that James Dyson is personally inventing all Dyson products now. That doesn't mean he has no influence. When I worked there (about 10 years ago tbf) he still had huge influence over the designs, especially the ones he cared about.

The one thing that is true is that Dyson won't make anything that isn't patentable because James Dyson dislikes his products being cloned so much. So even though though could make really good versions of normal products, they don't.

Also they are way too expensive. Though in fairness my shitty Shark was expensive too.

Don't buy a Shark.

I’ve had the Dyson DC02 (1995) - great machine, rubbish plastic in the handle which always cracked after 5 or more years. The filters were also a terrible, throwaway design.

Then bought the DC25 (2008). The DC02 still worked, but this was a dramatic upgrade, solid, strong, easy to clean the brush bar (a long haired dog and 2x daughters made this a god send feature) and easy to wash filters.

Then bought the DC16 - their first cordless. Appalling suction and batteries which died after 1-2 years of use.

Next decided to try a different brand and bought a Miele CX1 (2019) - their first bag less cleaner. Highly rated, very expensive. It had the worst brush head I’ve ever seen, required fiddly disassembly to empty the weird little dust compartment within the canister and had a very odd dust filter which was a pain to clean. Terrible vacuum and lousy design compared to our previous Dyson.

Now we have the V15 - phenomenal cordless vacuum. Can’t praise it enough. It’s just a vacuum mind but it’s very good.

As an aside we’ve also bought the Dyson fans for work. The circular one worked well the HP02 heater purifier which cost a fortune has a high pitched whine which is so irritating that everyone turns it off and this is despite Dyson reluctantly taking it back and ‘fixing’ it - whereupon a year later it’s back to whining.

Dyson himself seems a hypocrite and a little questionable - between Brexit and then incorporating in Singapore and also buying swathes of British farmland I’m not exactly enamored. Also backing out of the Dyson car seemed a low ambition move to me given he has total ownership of the company and is one of the few people in the world who can make that kind of impact.

But the article itself just seems a nothing burger.

Everything will be worker and independently owned (bootstrapped and no VCs), no patents (we don't care about clones)

Just make great product that is open has free software.

If there would be significant interest Dyson could have a direct competitor just like many other open source companies like System72 and Red Hat

People on HN are always saying they'd pay extra for a vacuum cleaner that is repairable. Well, here it is. Put your money where your mouth is.

I've had mine for at least ten years, and when something goes wrong, I'm able to order parts, and fix it myself. The whole thing is extensively designed to be repaired, complete with little icons on most of the parts to guide to taking them apart and putting them together.

I suspect that 90% of the people on HN who complain about Dyson (and most other consumer products) have never owned one, and are just aping things they've read online just to have something at all to say.