• Optional@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Well this is just the nature of a product market. You see, producers make a product, and when it doesn’t work very well or even at all, they release it to the market. And when the market finds no use for the product, producers begin to stuff the product in every conceivable nook so that the market is necessarily forced to use the product.

    And when the market responds angrily that they DON’T WANT THE GODDAMNED FUCKING PRODUCT FOR FUCK’S SAKE the producers then find even more ways to glom the product in to existing successful products to ensure the market saturation of the product people don’t want.

    It’s Econ 101, really. Supply and Supply.

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      21 hours ago

      It’s the Sony approach. Betamax was beaten by VHS (despite being better), and then Video8 was beaten by pretty much every competing format, so their strategy to defeat HD-DVD with Blu-ray was to methodically shove it up every consumer’s ass no matter how much they kicked and screamed. They spent a lot of money doing it, but they came out of it with market dominance.