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1. lordleft · 1789987740 · focus · HN ↗

   Something I really dislike about modern consumer products is that companies simply don’t care if their decisions leave their customers embittered and feeling negatively about their decisions. It seems like that used to be a salient factor in how firms designed, sold and pitched their wares.

   1. mitxela · 1789990662 · focus · HN ↗

      It's the lack of competition. They know you're not going to stop paying them.

      1. mrweasel · 1789991156 · focus · HN ↗

         Even with the lack of competition, shouldn't you have at least some pride on the product your offering? That's really what gets me every time, the fact that many companies actually don't really care about their product and clearly doesn't take any pride in it.

         The people making the movies and shows, writes, actors, production crew, all of those, probably do care, but in the management layers at Disney, Netflix, HBO, you name it, they don't seem care about the actual product. While the hell would you work at e.g. Disney, if you don't care about movies, cartoons and stories?

         1. mitxela · 1789991866 · focus · HN ↗

            No, why should they have pride? Having pride is more expensive than not having it, and the ones with pride have been naturally selected out of the market. The people making the movies don't care either, haven't you seen all the complaints about Hollywood becoming a slop factory?
         2. triceratops · 1790014033 · focus · HN ↗

            "Pride doesn't increase shareholder value" - many execs.
      2. kypro · 1789991306 · focus · HN ↗

         I don't think it's that. Most people simply don't care.

         I'd stop paying them, but it always amazes me just how unbothered the average person is to watch 3 minutes of ads for 10 mins of content. Especially when it comes to platforms like YouTube.

         1. Quothling · 1789992442 · focus · HN ↗

            I think this might be a miscalculation on disney's behalf unless they don't turn it on, on the childrens profiles. Like, I'll watch 5 sections of gaming adds on the last episode of reacher because I'm too cheap to pay the extra 29 dkr before I cancel my subscription anyway, but I canceled Disney the monent they added the advertising to things my children were watching. It wasn't even real advertising, just testing the waters where they'd put a 40ish second add for one of their own movies that you could skip, but I don't want that for my children.

            I doubt I'm unique.

      3. carlosjobim · 1790006470 · focus · HN ↗

         There's always competition for the consumer dollar, unless you are the only business selling necessities for survival such as electricity, gas, food, and such.

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