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JohnBarnes
9/25/2017 10:00:48 PM
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Ariella,
Yep, and car sound systems make great strides but cars remain, for purposes of transportation, pretty much what they were.
Video quality on phones goes up but signal quality for talking ot people isn't noticeably better than a 1960s landline.
It's the new and peripheral functions, not the core and central ones, that get to be NEW and IMPROVED.
Ariella
9/25/2017 9:36:23 PM
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Re: Comcast has SD-WAN
@JohnBarnes There actually have been some innovations in the instant cooking, including some boxed meals that require no refigeration and then heat themselves through a chemical reaction -- so no appliances needed. But ifyou ant real home-cooked food taste, you won't find it there. So we get new and improved methods of preparation but no necessarily new and improved products in terms of quality of taste.
JohnBarnes
9/25/2017 9:25:51 PM
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Re: Comcast has SD-WAN
Ariella,
Consider the humble frozen dinner, once known as the TV dinner. Once they had to be heated in conventional ovens, took as long as making a quick meal from scratch, and tasted like crap. Now, with microwave, they can be heated without heating the kitchen, take just a couple of minutes -- and still taste like crap. But what has happened is that most of the funcitons of a meal (other than stuffing in enough calories to stay alive) went away with the old version, and the features that were later added to the old version (speed, convenience, keeping raccoons from looking forward to your garbage) became what it was "really" about. So, no, it's not that we formely had "old and lousy." It's that we now have "something from a different category set altogether, whether for good or ill".
Ariella
9/19/2017 7:01:20 PM
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Re: Comcast has SD-WAN
@JohnBarnes that reminds of an "All in the Family" episode in which Archie's son-in-law complained about everything being labelled "New and Improved." He said, "What did we have before, old and lousy?"
mpouraryan
9/19/2017 3:54:16 PM
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You lay out @JohnBarnes the exact case as to why we should not ever be "taken in" by the latest and greatest--and only to let it all work thru it--as eptiomized of course by the iphone X--as there is "of course", the impact on the planet itself that should "hopefully" be of concern to all:
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/iphone-x-apple-environment-pollution-smartphones-k/
JohnBarnes
9/19/2017 2:40:06 PM
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Re: Comcast has SD-WAN
Ariella,
Speaking as a guy with too many years in sales, yeah, the drive to upsell is surely part of it.
But speaking as a guy with too many visits to wherever the tech frontier was in my lifetime, another problem is that the tech advances so fast that it is really hard to follow the zeroth law of marketing, "always convert features to benefits." The engineers have something working in June that was laboratory experiments in April and a theoretical-possibility paper in January ... how is the salescritter (in July) supposed to tell the customers why they want it? The tendency to fall back on pulling random sentences from the engineer reports, or to simply declare it's NEW! and IMPROVED!, or to pack buzzwords together and hope other people don't understand any more than you do, is pretty overwhelming, especially when it may really not be practical to figure out the real feature-to-benefit match (for one thing, so much of that comes from experience).
mpouraryan
9/19/2017 12:11:45 PM
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Re: Comcast has SD-WAN
These providers have to figure out a way to squeeze out revenue especially as "cord cutters' continue onward.
Ariella
9/18/2017 3:16:02 PM
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@JohnBarnes True, though I often get the impression that the tech producers are making more features and options than I want just to try to upsell me. Certainly, that's the case with my internet service. I don't need the speediest, just the speed that handles what I currently do. And I'd rather keep my subscription price steady than keep upgrading.
JohnBarnes
9/18/2017 3:10:02 PM
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Ariella, DCawrey,
The catch is that technical possibilities are now advancing so fast that to a great extent the users not only have trouble keeping up with what's on the menu, they have trouble understanding what it is even when it's available. A lot of current cutting-edge marketing consists of trying to figure out which features will seem valuable to a customer trying the thing out, rather than the old kind of marketing where you just give them a list of possible benefits and features and ask them to check the ones they want.
Ariella
9/18/2017 2:02:10 PM
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@dcawrey peole forget the simple principle that you should design the tech for the user -- not make the user conform to the tech.
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