Minimum viable product, maximum revenue extraction.
If you don't like the product, don't buy it or use it.
Or did you think the evolution of subscriptions and microtransactions was to benefit you, the customer?
Oddly enough, yes. Successful businesses are motivated by maximizing their profit. But they succeed at this only if people actually choose to buy their products because they benefit. The fact that the business is primarily motivated by its own profits is not a problem, because in a free market, the only
We have studies that show there is no market competition with fewer than 5 choices holding more than 70% of market share. Freedom and choices are a lot more limited than you are imagining, both theoretically and practically.
Which is why consumer survey's showed that 85% of consumers preferred low gloss/matte screens but over 95% of screens made were high gloss, a problem that has existed for MUCH too long.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @11:47AM (#50388359)
Which is why consumer survey's showed that 85% of consumers preferred low gloss/matte screens but over 95% of screens made were high gloss, a problem that has existed for MUCH too long.
That's one of those problems that is difficult to fix. When you are in the store and compare the gloss screen to the matte screen, the glossy one has much more vibrant colors, so consumers naturally pick that one. It's only when they get to using it in real life that the glare starts to get to them. But at that point it's too late. They've already bought it, thus rewarding the company for producing the glossy screen. They have no way to provide feedback to the company to incentivise them to manufacture matte screens. The best the consumer can do is, IF they happen to figure out that the gloss is the source of their frustration and they would have been better with a matte screen, and IF they can manage to remember that fact several years later when they buy their next TV, then I suppose they can make the point then. But the truth is most people WON'T figure it out, and most of those who actually do WON'T remember it several years later when they next buy a new TV. So they'll walk back into the store, say "wow that one looks a lot better" and walk out with another glossy, and the glossy manufacturer has been rewarded again.
My guess would be that most consumers don't even realize that it is not normal to have the reflections. They wouldn't even realize that a matte screen discourages reflections on the screen, thereby improving the picture in most lighting situations.
To most consumers, it is normal to watch movies in a darkened room without any other light sources.
There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.
-- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923
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Minimum viable product, maximum revenue extraction.
Or did you think the evolution of subscriptions and microtransactions was to benefit you, the customer?
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If you don't like the product, don't buy it or use it.
Oddly enough, yes. Successful businesses are motivated by maximizing their profit. But they succeed at this only if people actually choose to buy their products because they benefit. The fact that the business is primarily motivated by its own profits is not a problem, because in a free market, the only
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Re:That's all that consumer-oriented businesses do (Score:3, Insightful)
Which is why consumer survey's showed that 85% of consumers preferred low gloss/matte screens but over 95% of screens made were high gloss, a problem that has existed for MUCH too long.
That's one of those problems that is difficult to fix. When you are in the store and compare the gloss screen to the matte screen, the glossy one has much more vibrant colors, so consumers naturally pick that one. It's only when they get to using it in real life that the glare starts to get to them. But at that point it's too late. They've already bought it, thus rewarding the company for producing the glossy screen. They have no way to provide feedback to the company to incentivise them to manufacture matte screens. The best the consumer can do is, IF they happen to figure out that the gloss is the source of their frustration and they would have been better with a matte screen, and IF they can manage to remember that fact several years later when they buy their next TV, then I suppose they can make the point then. But the truth is most people WON'T figure it out, and most of those who actually do WON'T remember it several years later when they next buy a new TV. So they'll walk back into the store, say "wow that one looks a lot better" and walk out with another glossy, and the glossy manufacturer has been rewarded again.
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My guess would be that most consumers don't even realize that it is not normal to have the reflections. They wouldn't even realize that a matte screen discourages reflections on the screen, thereby improving the picture in most lighting situations.
To most consumers, it is normal to watch movies in a darkened room without any other light sources.