Re:The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99
by api on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @12:51AM
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The same perverse incentive underlies all marketing. If you tell the truth and make sane claims you lose to flash, grandiosity, and viral gimmicks. Over time the whole system runs over a cliff. It's sort of a game theory meltdown thing.
It is eventually self correcting, but that usually involves a market crash and a Game of Thrones style winter where the junk is purged.
I'd argue that these platforms create a perverse incentive for people to exaggerate their experience and/or product to appeal to the clueless masses but I guess that's the same with most kinds of marketing ...