Understanding why global giants design product is not exactly a rocket science. Of course not everyone does this, but happens enough to warrant a closer look. Most enthusiasts grin from ear-to-ear when they hear about a product launch.
If your wallet has different pipeline into a bank you can buy a lot of 3D Blue ray content from abroad and have it shipped here. You can find a way to bypass the region restrictions and all, but that is not the point.
Why should you need to be connected to the internet to play a single player game? The mad craze to find out the latest electronic devices is mainly because of subsidized price.
It is not just the popular consumer products that are affected, have you thought about your precious PCs? How do your get to it? You see more and more people around you flaunting the latest mobiles. They are not shy to tell you exactly what the salesman did either.
“This is the latest model, it has 4G and Near-Filed-Communication- you know to make mobile payments with”. It is a decent experience that is pretty expensive .GPS is much like you can do with Google maps.
It also carried other awesome perks- like a female voice telling you where to turn.
For starters the money spent on developing the tech that they sell is of the order of crazy. While the sum might be lower for software service providers, but the idea still holds.
Such sums of money are spent to develop technology to keep pace with the best resources of the world. Sure, you could ask them to bite the bullet for either (or for both), but as much as it pales in comparison to their outwardly incomes.
We need to get back control, we have gotten complacent and the buying decisions have gone unruly. “A luxury once sample, becomes a necessity.”
The consumers themselves have made it easy for the marketers. All they care about are the specifications and the price and whether they are getting a god deal. Their minds will be so wrapped by desires for something new that many of them will actually be happy that their products failed.
The market needs to be controlled , growth rates slowed down , we need to fix prices , post pone updates and refresh products that do not need to be refreshed.
We have to work hard to please the creatures; it is not just that, if they get responsibility they might grow to that challenge, they are getting wise to our methods now and we have to stop them. I just hope I would not go off and blow all my money on silly things like these!