Our monoculture: iPhone and Samsung for all
Apart from the need to take advantage of economies of scale in order to turn a profit, I have noticed the often-used argument on CB forums that (based on consumer sales) Blackberry is a 'bad' hardware company because they're not selling enough handsets.
But is that the only criteria we should use when judging what's 'good' 'of worth' or value?*
Likewise, the argument that "most people" don't want/use/need a particular feature found in BlackBerry (physical keyboards, Hub, call quality, etc.) is too-often cited as a reason that BlackBerry hardware should die a fast death.*
I've also noticed that this is an attitude often found in many societies*(western, industrial)*at large. The acceptance of one (idea, viewpoint, brand, product, etc.) translates into the rejection of *everything* else.*
Some writers have labeled it a "monoculture." That is the tendency to deride, defame or diminish a desire to simultaneously maintain a divergence of competing or contradictory views -- or in this case, consumer products. Hence, the emergence of a single, overriding, and dominant culture.*
iPhones and Samsung for all: other alternatives must die. A monoculture.
I witnessed this when CDs were introduced and my collection of vinyl was laughed at, despite my CD collection being equally large. As I said, acceptance of one seems to call for the rejection of all else. It's as though we can't juggle two or more thoughts or preferences simultaneously.*
Rock and Roll rises, and jazz dies. Blue jeans go from rejected to accepted and become the dominant 'uniform' for generations.*It's all or nothing.*
Whether it's jeans, running shoes, political views, musical tastes, etc., the popular tendency is to go 'all in' and vehemently deny any alternative 'ways of being'.
Why can't we simply accept an ecosystem that contains a multiplicity of ideas, tastes, products?
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Our monoculture: iPhone and Samsung for all
Lol and people in here think that iPhone users are pretentious. Make a good enough product at the right time and people will buy it, simple as that. Deliver a product that isn't ready for the market much too late when people have moved on, then you have a problem. Blackberry did this to themselves, society didn't do it to them.