3 Aug
2006
3 Aug
'06
9:14 a.m.
On Thursday 03 August 2006 12:31 pm, Jules Richardson wrote:
I get the impression that the high-end market was
always this way - with
companies / sales-force trying to convince people that they *needed* the
latest gizmo even if they didn't. For the home market though, it seems like
a more recent thing.
e.g. take PCs (please! ;) - Back in the early 90's you could choose
whether to have an accelerated graphics card or not, a caching disk
controller or not, a CDROM drive, a large or small hard disk etc. - at
least the customer had the choice. These days they don't get given that,
and everyone has to have the complexity whether they actually want/need it
or not...
The thing is, for techy-type people who want those choices, that's great.
The average mass-market customer not only doesn't want those choices, they
don't understand them, and so they want someone else to make the choices
_for_ them. Which is why m$ is going so far compared to other choices in
that market.
Personally I don't like the choices they make, and don't like the way that
every single time I end up having to use something on that platform I end up
feeling like I'm fighting it, but that's me. And I suspect a lot of the
folks in here, but definitely _not_ the mass market, unfortunately.
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