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The engineers are NOT creating artificial sounds to fool customers. As the article describes, customers would not buy a good product just because it does not so
by awaz 15y ago
The engineers are NOT creating artificial sounds to fool customers. As the article describes, customers would not buy a good product just because it does not sound good (which means customers are fools). Engineers are designing the products knowing that their customers are fools.
- TeMPOraL 15y ago"sounds good" might be a part of a product "being good". I believe humans care not only about practical aspects, but emotions and broadly understood "user experience" as well - no matter how hard they try not to admit that.
- biot 15y agoPeople enjoy things that please their senses. This applies to cars, dating, software, food, and just about darned near everything. Perhaps on Vulcan everyone chooses strictly for logic, but humans base many decisions on such illogical concepts like how something makes them feel. I guess we're all fools that way.
- robryan 15y agoMakes producing products/ services and marketing more interesting than if everyone acted in completely logical and rational ways.
- ugh 15y agoNo one in this story is a fool. There is nothing wrong with wanting certain things sound a certain way.
- awaz 15y agoI used the fool word in my reply to show that the story makes a wrong point. Engineers are being smart in Including the sound aspect, customers are being smart in paying attention to the sound as a cue. That means the author of the story is a fool :)