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Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse (www.pcworld.com)
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  • Nvidia and Micron are making emotional appeals to consumers while PC users express frustration with big AI companies’ practices and self-serving motives.
  • Memory vendors predict DRAM and SSD shortages lasting until mid-2027, while new tariffs on advanced computing chips and potential Steam Machine pricing over $1,000 add to consumer concerns.
  • The article highlights how corporations use emotional messaging to mask financial interests, advising consumers to remain skeptical of such appeals.
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[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The customer is always right was never a thing.

For a start, it's an intentional shortening of the actual phrase, for exploitative reasons, of "the customer is always right in matters of taste"

Which just means "if they want to buy ugly shit, let them"

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

Well shit, that's interesting. Thanks for the link.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

I have been staring at the original comment trying to figure out how to basically say this, so thank you. lol. "The customer is always right" just means don't tell the customer that green and purple polka dot curtains are fuck-ugly because it will hurt the company's bottom line.

I don't think Capitalism has ever been this romanticized version, at least not in my lifetime. It has always been about how much money "they" can squeeze out of consumers, and they have been inching more and more constantly for a long time to get where we are now. The companies have always wanted to manipulate to make more money, and the only slight road blocks or steps in the right direction have come from government regulation.

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

The "in matters of taste" line is misinformation started in the last decade online by people who repeat things without looking up if they're true or not.