[trey-jones]

Your biases in mind, this is hardly surprising. It seems most companies would rather devote the majority of resources to marketing, rather than to engineering/production to actually fix problems and build a better product.

There are probably valid reasons for this. I don't want to step on any toes (yes I do), but it takes about 2 brain cells to come up with a new marketing gimmick compared to whatever value you want to assign to actual problem solving. Marketing is the lazy approach, in my opinion, but also there simply isn't enough problem solving talent available to solve all the problems. It seems we're coming around to education again... I'll leave off.