I think that (one of the) point(s) of the article is that it's not "the masses" that want all this noise, but the attention-craving product managers in applianc

I think that (one of the) point(s) of the article is that it's not "the masses" that want all this noise, but the attention-craving product managers in appliance companies that want it. (And an Apple or Windows computer is an appliance, hardly at all a General Purpose Turing-Machine Equivalent.)