3 ms·
A cute but still very real example of greed. Dell is paid to advertise a product. The product is on by default. Such that the clueless user can learn about how
by bombela 6y ago
A cute but still very real example of greed.
Dell is paid to advertise a product. The product is on by default. Such that the clueless user can learn about how much it would improve their life.
- donatj 6y agoI'm pretty sure the software was free.
- dylan604 6y agoFree to the user, but these "free" apps were usually sponsored where the software developer paid Dell to include on all of their laptops
- donatj 6y agoThat seems pretty charitable in that case. I don't see where greed is involved here?
- toss1 6y agoThe greed is the advertising forced upon the user, at the expense of their computer resources and their time, in order to provoke them to buy more stuff that they otherwise would not ever think existed or that they would need. The only charitable bit is that this popped up yesterday and gave millions of people a very much-needed laugh, but that was entirely unintentional.
- dylan604 6y agoYou replied to a statement that had less than 25 words in it, and not one of them was "greed". The statement I replied to also did not include the word "greed".
- donatj 6y agoYou replied to my reply to OP who said: > A cute but still very real example of greed. Everything I said on my reply is in the context of that.