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Mr Norman Cook
or is this just another of those viral clips
Tell that to Joe the Plumber.
We see this now with PC and video card performance. We see the slightest increase in performance marketed as a cutting edge improvement. The result is millions retire their 2.8GHz PC to buy a 3.1GHz PC, thinking they are making advances.
It's a simple cash cow model Intel, AMD, MS, and Apple haved used against consumers for 25 years... because it works in a consumer driven market. It provides a huge ROI on modest research efforts.
I hope the current economic crisis snaps us out of the consumer driven model, perhaps to move toward a value-based market model - where we buy things not because we love to buy things but because we believe the exchange of our money for their products represents something of some real value to us. Currently, most consumers are driven to... consume for the sake of consumption. We are so used to it, we don't even take offense that "they" call us consumers, instead of customers. What does *that* all mean?
5stars!
food for thought.