Swap all that with "big marketing budget"
You can see how easy politicians can conquer minds, it's no surprise trillion dollar companies are able to sell anti consumer products at luxury pricing.
"convenience" is just marketing.
You can see how easy politicians can conquer minds, it's no surprise trillion dollar companies are able to sell anti consumer products at luxury pricing.
"convenience" is just marketing.
No, it isn't. This is intentional ignorance and if people keep believing it we will absolutely lose. This kind of thinking goes all the way back to the 1980s and 1990s when people said "GUIs are for wimps" and became increasingly irrelevant as everyone started using GUIs.
When I am driving and need turn by turn directions, if I have to take extra steps to get my maps app to work I might have to pull over or might try to do it while driving and crash. My map app must "just work."
If I'm about to give a talk and I plug in the projector's HDMI cable and my video driver crashes and I have to load up a config file, I look amateurish. My video subsystem must "just work."
If I'm trying to close a deal and can't share a document, the deal may fail and revenue could be lost. People might even lose their jobs. My collaboration system must "just work."
I could keep going.
Convenience is extremely important in the real world. It saves time, money, and even lives.
Haha I missed more streets with their map program, their music store is more complicated, and their podcast app is more buggy.
It's marketing.
Chances are that it’s intimately involved in your client, my client, and the HN services
Last I checked, both major mobile platforms have their OS roots in FOSS, Linux and BSD, respectively.