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Comment by ricksplat | Hacker News Reader

not a few Apple shills on here I see.

Just so ye know - PR, managing expectations and policing discussions boards aren't a good way to promote a high end devices company. Developing high end devices is, and useful services to go with them is "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - a quote I'm sure Jobs was familiar with.

> "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

If XXI century is proving anything it's that while Nature cannot be fooled, humans can, and rather trivially so. More and more businesses have discovered that spending money on marketing has much better ROI than spending it on making a useful, valuable product.

Want a quick proof in a tech sphere? Just look at the IoT market.

I don't think that's any proof - like you say it's "burgeoning" and complaints abound on security and reliability. I doubt it makes a huge amount of money at this stage.

I don't believe the 21st century has shown that at all - it wasn't marketing that made apple the behoemeth that it is ("it just works" was more than just a slogan). Look at the declining fortunes of IBM & HP??

Yeah individuals can be fooled, but en mass things revert to a nature state. "you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" as true in this century as the last

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