Re:Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've ...
by chongli on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @05:07AM
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That's really only true for big companies like Ab-Inbev. You aren't going to see any of that at your mom and pop vineyard or craft microbrewery. You also don't see much of that pathological, exploitive behaviour in 1 person indie game shops either, however.
Re:Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've ...
by dagw on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @07:44AM
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You aren't going to see any of that at your mom and pop vineyard or craft microbrewery.
Half the craft microbreweries are owned by Ab-Inbev and the likes.
Re:Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've ...
by chongli on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:11PM
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Yes, and tons of indie developers are beholden to big publishers like Sony and Microsoft. That doesn't change the fact that there are plenty of properly independent folks.
Also, I am not aware of the craft microbreweries owned by the big companies engaging in the sort of abusive behaviours that the main brands engage in, are you?
Needless to say, it's a complicated picture.
Yes, it is.
> . Go visit a vineyard, distillery, or a brewery. People may be trying to improve the quality of the product, but they are not relentlessly trying to increase "user drinking minutes" or any metric like that.
Yes, that's exactly what the marketing arms of the firms involved, and the advertising agencies they employ, are trying to do. (There's some actual product-development involvement there, too; light and ultra-light beers were invented pretty much exactly to maximize user drinking minutes.)