Making a product "stupid proof" is necessary only if you need an extremely large userbase for your product to survive. If you can find a niche market you don't need to make it stupid proof. For example early video games did not have to sell millions of copies to be considered successful. And many of them weren't very stupid proof at all.
Yup. Most of the products I personally want don't fall into a niche though (tech has become expensive and thus most tech companies strive to be mainstream or raise prices). Everything your saying is correct and I love capitalism for that, but the products I want are expensive to make so they have to succeed on a large level to be worth it; that generally means make it user friendly.
Quote:but the products I want are expensive to make so they have to succeed on a large level to be worth it
Not true at all. In fact generally the exact opposite is true.
Cheaper products have to be sold with lower profit margins per unit, which means more units have to be sold.
Xeon cpus and quadro gpus for example are expensive products and therefore don't need a lot of people to buy them.
Yeah but those have high mark ups to make up for it, while most consumer-grade products have lesser mark up and rely on selling more.
(09-24-2012, 06:53 AM)Axxer Wrote: [ -> ]I look forward to the future!
The future. We're already there. No, wait, it just jumped ahead. Okay, here it comes again. Curses, it always seems to be just ahead of the present. We'll get there, someday.
Damn I'm good at derailing threads.
(09-24-2012, 07:11 AM)Shonumi Wrote: [ -> ] (09-24-2012, 06:53 AM)Axxer Wrote: [ -> ]I look forward to the future!
The future. We're already there. No, wait, it just jumped ahead. Okay, here it comes again. Curses, it always seems to be just ahead of the present. We'll get there, someday.
Damn your trick questions!
It's like the question "Will mankind ever travel through time?"
And then someone says "of course dumb**** the clock keeps ticking."
(09-24-2012, 07:12 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Damn I'm good at derailing threads.
It's your special flavor.
Quote:It's like the question "Will mankind ever travel through time?"
Answer to interpretation 1: Yes. Every object in our dimension constantly travels forward through time.
Answer to interpretation 2: Yes. The flow of spacetime changes in proximity to gravitational pull. And we live on a f**king planet.
Unfortunately no one has designed a way to travel backward in time. Only going forward faster has been found.
Quote:Only going forward slower has been found.
Fixed that for you.