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Why can't be one loyal to an app?
by okt 6y ago
Why can't be one loyal to an app?
- tsukurimashou 6y agohaving a concept of "loyalty" for apps and corporations is beyond me
- tartrate 6y agoLoyal user is a well-recognised term in marketing among other areas meaning someone who keeps using the product over a long period of time. It's not more complicated than that.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoYes, but "loyal user" is in the same box as "target audience" and all the other terms in the marketing vernacular. This is a language of people taking advantage of others, talking about their victims. It makes little sense to use such language voluntarily on yourself.
- cameronbrown 6y agoMarketing speak is mostly drivel to me, but you'll have a hard time convincing most people that the language is somehow oppressive.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoIt's not oppressive, it's objectifying; it treats you as a resource to be exploited with little to no consideration to your well-being. No reason to voluntarily use it on yourself.
- cameronbrown 6y agoWell this is just the nature of operating a business at scale. Even little corner shops don't recognise customers on an individual basis. > It treats you as a resource to be exploited with little to no consideration to your well-being There are companies which I feel loyal to (Valve/Steam, for example) because they treat their customers well. I believe they deserve my money because they're a good company so I will give them the benefit of the doubt if they do something wrong. Ultimately we want to reward good behaviour in the market, no?
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- TeMPOraL 6y agoWhat has the app ever done to deserve your loyalty?
- pgeorgi 6y agoYou might be taking "loyalty" a bit too literal, but that question seems odd on a forum that's broadly aligned with a community that features the editor wars (emacs, vi!), operating system wars (BSD, Linux, macos!) and countless other ways of attaching one's identity to pieces of software.