"Why does nobody want this thing we told them they want!"
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2026
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"We made PC's popular and we're going to make them unpopular too god damnit."
Because consumers know that they'll be paying extra for something that they don't want or care about.
"TV manufacturers question why demand stagnates for 3D TVs"
To be fair to TV manufacturers, I feel like they did just quietly let it die when 3D didn't take off.
Oh yeah, but it took 10 years before they realized that :p
Tbf 3D TVs had a real use case. Not like the garbage Microsoft is producing here.
The amount of advertising being poured into the most naff uses for "AI" suggests to me that none of the big boys have much of an idea as to what people might want to do with their water-chugging remix machines.
They don’t actually care. The make it and slap a subscription value on it model has worked over and over in the past.
I’d like to think people don't have a use but people keep paying for useless digital crap so I can see why they took a gamble.
I have had a few chats with people who are willing to pay and my observations is the reason boils down to I think it will give my brain an advantage or a boredom obsession such as my need to aggravate golf ratings is super important to me. The ones I have seen who are willing to pay are lemmings.
Could it be that consumers are not as easily fooled by empty/false promises as shareholders?
I don't think it's just confusion over the AI. There's also a lot of distrust. Because everybody knows that AI is a two-way street. It'll do things for you but it will also record everything you do and send it to their true masters.
I don't think the average user cares much about privacy, unfortunately. Most of the people I talk to say the same line: I don't have anything to hide
Scary
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