Hmm. You see, a car is better than a horse. Not only because of speed. Because of the convenience of usage too.
You don’t want a faster horse. You just don’t want more bullshit for more price.
You want convenience.
But what if I really want a faster horse?
Submitted 3 days ago by Ninjazzon@infosec.pub to technology@beehaw.org
https://rakhim.exotext.com/but-what-if-i-really-want-a-faster-horse
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Lembot_0001@lemm.ee 3 days ago
SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Horses can go places cars cannot. You have completely missed the point.
Lembot_0001@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Some cars can go places horses cannot. You have completely missed the point. I’m not discussing the intricate nuances of the provided analogy.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
If I bought a horse and got bull shit, I’m returning the horse and not buying from “Bob’s horses, definitely not bulls” store again.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 days ago
Better is relative. Also its unfair to compare one species (car) against many possible specialized species (cars). In example you don’t need to repair an expensive car, you don’t need electricity or oil and fuel (and many other stuff). Depending on where you are in the world, a horse might be “better” suited than a car.
Emmie@lemm.ee 3 days ago
My actually bingo is complete
Emmie@lemm.ee 3 days ago
From all the steaming platforms I like the Parasite TV the most
tiramichu@lemm.ee 3 days ago
This is happening because all platforms are optimising for the one single metric that matters most to them - engagement.
When you consider all users as a whole, the way to get engagement is not to have a good UX that lets you tailor what you see and search for the specific things you are interested in. The way to get it is to shove a constantly changing and brightly coloured stream of “content” right in people’s faces where they don’t have to do any thinking or make any decisions, they just mindlessly click what is offered and consume.
From Netflix’s perspective, they want someone to go from opening the app to watching a video in 10 seconds, and if they don’t achieve that, it’s a failure which they will optimise away.