Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ...
by yafbum on Sunday July 02, 2023 @01:46PM
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It's not. Apple advertised massively the iPhone when it came out, and while they did take share away from other phone manufacturers, they almost certainly made the pie bigger for everyone. People weren't routinely buying phones that cost close to $1000 every few years.
Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ...
by vlovich123 on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:43PM
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The first iPhone was about $600 which wasn’t that high when you consider the price of an iPod + cell phone combined. And people were regularly buying cellphones and that trend would only ever increase.
As for advertising driving consumerism, that’s undeniable but it’s unclear to me that consumerism is a net positive. We certainly can see all the negative things it creates in society. It also distorts the market in a way that funds are directed to things that may not be as important but has better advertising.
Advertising is a 0 sum game. Everyone doing it and no one doing it has roughly the same result. If your competitors do it and you don’t you lose.