[MBCook]

Is there demand? Or do they just assume there is?

If they shove it in every single product and that’s all anyone advertises, whether consumers know it will help them or not, you don’t get a lot of choice.

If you want the latest chip, you’re getting AI stuff. That’s all there is to it.

[Terr_]

"The math is clear: 100% of our our car sales come from models with our company logo somewhere on the front, which shows incredible customer desire for logos. We should consider offering a new luxury trim level with more of them."

"How many models to we have without logos?"

"Huh? Why would we do that?"

[MBCook]

Heh. Yeah more or less.

To some degree I understand it, because as we’ve all noticed computers have pretty much plateaued for the average person. They last much longer. You don’t need to replace them every two years anymore because the software isn’t out stripping them so fast.

AI is the first thing to come along in quite a while that not only needs significant power but it’s just something different. It’s something they can say your old computer doesn’t have that the new one does. Other than being 5% faster or whatever.

So even if people don’t need it, and even if they notice they don’t need it, it’s something to market on.

The stuff up thread about it being the hotness that Wall Street loves is absolutely a thing too.

[ddingus]

That was all true nearly 10 years ago. And it has only improved. Almost any computer one finds these days is capable of the basics.