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That's neither great nor worthy. A truly good product sells itself. All advertising is just manipulation.
by na85 7y ago
That's neither great nor worthy.
A truly good product sells itself. All advertising is just manipulation.
- OmarShehata 7y ago"A truly great product sells itself" is one of the most persistent myths engineers believe. I don't understand how people can still believe this when it's so obviously false. It's a nice story, that if you make something great you'll get what you deserve. That sounds fair, but there's no reason to believe the market works this way. A "truly great product" that no one (or not enough people) know about will go out of business and disappear. Good advertising is just communication.
- mindcrime 7y agoA truly good product sells itself. That's completely absurd. How can a product "sell itself" if nobody knows it exists, or knows how great it is? How do they find out those things? Well, in part, by advertising. I heartily agree that some advertising is manipulative and anti-social... but I can't buy this "all advertising is just manipulation" stuff.