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Reminds me of the old joke about the ideal company is having one person to turn on a factory and then place a logo on it, while engineering and everything else
by kiba 6y ago
Reminds me of the old joke about the ideal company is having one person to turn on a factory and then place a logo on it, while engineering and everything else is outsourced.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoIt's like celebrities launching lines of cosmetics products - all they do is contribute a picture of their face, and then they rake in the money.
- sharken 6y agoSadly a very effective strategy until you develop critical thinking, some struggle their entire life to achieve it.
- mrtksn 6y agoCritical thinking can suggest that the actual physical product lacks innovation or doesn't bring anything dramatically better on table but the branding does, therefore the branding people take the money.
- SomeoneFromCA 6y agoNot exactly, they also signal that the style of the product will overall match the public image of the celebrity, which may actually save some time whey you are shopping, but most probably not worth it.
- nagalpl 6y agoThis is how software works, too, in some cases even open source, look at the Python ecosystem. Search for the actual authors or who is doing the work vs. who is going on stage in the Hyatt.