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Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells
UsoSaito@feddit.uk 1 day ago
This year, it is no longer Consumer Electronics Show… it’s now Corporate Electronics Show.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
What?
tomkatt@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
stephan262@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
It’s a reference to the “Always has been” meme.
bbboi@feddit.uk 22 hours ago
Consumer
a person who uses up a commodity; a purchaser of goods or services, a customer
Companies are always chasing stupid ideas. The AI fridge is the Twitter fridge of this decade, a stupid idea some business person was genius.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Inclusion of AI isn’t meant to be a selling point to product buying customers but to convince retail investors who throw money at anything with AI into buying up shares of stock.
And some companies like NVIDIA and micron have reached a point where retail customer revenue is a rounding error compared to direct corporate sales, so there’s no need to cater them and for some no need to even sell to retail customers anymore.
As things get more expensive it helps create a rental economy, so people having to rent leads to companies able to make money selling to companies that are making money providing subscription services to consumers who have been priced out.
Kind of like the housing market in a way.
PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Exactly right.
As such, any bleating about markets being driven by “consumer choice” is either hopelessly out of date / embarrassingly naive - or malicious.
Just as consumer sales are a rounding error, so is consumer choice - it’s a direct relationship.
This extends a lot farther than the AI bubble, we have allowed corporations to merge and monopolize, and “investors” to gamble on it all, to where they completely invert the relationship.
They shape our experience by constraining choice, dictating only options with profit margins and heinous licensing terms that work exclusively and overwhelmingly in their favor.
thetrekkersparky@startrek.website 2 hours ago
I went myself about ten years back when I worked for a small electronics store. It was literally 70% slop and 20% cell phone cases. There was only one company there that we actually got excited about and looked at bringing in their products. Their products were much better than what we currently carried and our current supplier was a pain in the ass to deal with.
They were imeadiatly bought out and closed by the company we already dealt with before we could even place an order. We only ever received a demo unit.