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If your product is this bad and no one wants to buy it normally, maybe you should build a new product.
by zerosizedweasle 1y ago
If your product is this bad and no one wants to buy it normally, maybe you should build a new product.
- estimator7292 1y agoBut it's so much more profitable for shareholders to force users to engage with the shitty product
- givemeethekeys 1y agoIt's much cheaper for execs to buy bundled "it can do everything for less!" junk for the peasants. That and, they're paying for Excel anyway...
- cogman10 1y agoLiterally the exact reason we ended up with MS teams instead of slack.
- wat10000 1y agoEven if you have a great product, you'll still get more money out of people if you apply some dark patterns like this. It's very hard for a company to resist that siren call.
- vjvjvjvjghv 1y agoMaking new products is very hard. Just look at the innovation output of the tech giants. Compared to the resources they have it’s pretty pathetic. They are simply out of ideas.
- RoyTyrell 1y agoYea but Satya bet a lot of the company on AI, and if it fails he's fucked as CEO. So he's going to make damn well sure he's shoved AI down everyone's throats as much as possible, even if it alienates some percentage of their customer base.