For me it depends on the product. Car manuals, or just manuals in general - 99.9% of the time when I run in to a problem that requires me to think “ok, where’s the manual” I simply Google it, find a YouTube video, or a web article. I would have no problem downloading a copy of any manual instead of getting a psychical copy when I buy something. My new car came with a paper copy, I sat in the car thumbing through it going over some new features I wasn’t sure about. But I would do the same with a digital copy as well, makes me no difference.
Apple stopped shipping power adapters with their phones. To “go green” blah blah. Sure it saves them money, they no longer have to pop in a $1 power adapter with millions of phones they sell. But did they lower the cost of the phone by $1? Heck no.
And thus my point - I think in most cases when a manufacture deletes something they used to send it’s such an insignificant cost to consumer it wouldn’t make sense to reduce the cost of the item. What do you think a car manual costs Ford to send with every new vehicle? Sure it costs them millions to print and package, but to the individual consumer it might reduce 25 bucks off the price of the car. Meh.
I can’t think of anything that I pay extra for to keep the features/benefits I enjoy. In most cases you simply don’t have that option.
Apple stopped shipping power adapters with their phones. To “go green” blah blah. Sure it saves them money, they no longer have to pop in a $1 power adapter with millions of phones they sell. But did they lower the cost of the phone by $1? Heck no.
And thus my point - I think in most cases when a manufacture deletes something they used to send it’s such an insignificant cost to consumer it wouldn’t make sense to reduce the cost of the item. What do you think a car manual costs Ford to send with every new vehicle? Sure it costs them millions to print and package, but to the individual consumer it might reduce 25 bucks off the price of the car. Meh.
I can’t think of anything that I pay extra for to keep the features/benefits I enjoy. In most cases you simply don’t have that option.