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 He started the thread with something quite interesting that taught him about a way of designing tech products: Tech obfuscation. This is a well known way to swindle tech obsessed people to buy shiny and expensive things: the juicer that was only milking juice from a bag, the bunny AI crapware that was only a disguised Android App, etc. 3 comments
@wtrmt They definitely have a point in that the whole thing is ridiculous and shouldn't be necessary, and maybe there is indeed an exploitative markup... but that's the fault of apple in the first place and just typical modern commerce in the second. And yeah the op went ahead and put the whole thing through a xenophobic and weirdly corporate bootlicky lens 🤷♀️ @sinvega this whole licensing business — the business of making money limiting your product— in the end just waste the company resources that could be employed in making better and more interesting products. Can I sing Karaoke in this new car? Other markets are brimming with special needs and opportunities to design great products. |
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I never saw this method of developing a product as a way of designing around a licensing limitation while hiding complexity.
Kudos to the Chinese ingenuity, no to the dismissive xenophobia of the original author.
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