| Business as...usual? I cannot help but wonder if corporations are getting high on their own internal marketing. Seems to be commonplace anymore for a new product to be released with the expectation that it will sell itself. Why else would common sense decisions such as affordable price points, reasonable usability, and marketing support be almost completely absent? There appears to be an assumption that people will pay more for crippled functionality on a product they never heard of.
Sad part is when schemes like this fail repeatedly it is the consumer and the employees who ultimately pay for it, and not the big wigs sitting on top of the money pile. People lose their jobs so some dipshit at the top doesn't lose a few percentage as a result of poor decision making. |
