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They fall flat because they aren't keeping up with poorly made products that have all their budgets put into advertising. We can keep flipping this as long as
by epicide 8y ago
They fall flat because they aren't keeping up with poorly made products that have all their budgets put into advertising.
We can keep flipping this as long as we want. At the end of the day, it sucks that companies get a bigger (short-term) reward by dumping more into advertising and marketing than into the product itself.
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoI agree. I’m curious about all these world changing wonder products that just aren’t popular because a marketing agency wasn’t involved in manipulating... I mean educating the public.
- dec0dedab0de 8y agoWhile advocating the use of Open Source software at a fairly large corporation I used to work at, a common refrain was "You get what you paid for" I eventually started replying to that with "So we get marketing, and lunches with sales teams?" It actually worked a bit.