[TeMPOraL]

Price and marketing. For better or worse[0], the consumers are putting trust into marketoids and their emotionally manipulative messaging, that focuses on imaginary nirvana-like experience, and completely omits how the experience is likely to look like a few months after purchase.

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[0] - Sadly, it's likely for better. The world after most people get an accurate feel for how much they can trust companies will be a very bad place to live in.

[MichaelZuo]

People were saying this in 1923 after the radio became popular.

[squeaky-clean]

And they were correct then and they're correct now.