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'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells (apnews.com)
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[–] 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This year, it is no longer Consumer Electronics Show... it's now Corporate Electronics Show.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months 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.

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  • [–] -5 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    A consumer is just the opposite side of the same coin. Corporations exist because of customers and customers exist because of corporations.

    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. We've always been this dumb.

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  • [+] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 4 points 7 months 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    As such, any bleating about markets being driven by "consumer choice" is either hopelessly out of date / embarrassingly naive - or malicious.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.

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