Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by mbreedlove 4466 days ago
I believe orik is referring to the halo effect, a term used in marketing. It's the idea that when a customer has a positive experience with a companies products, they will likely choose that companies products in the future simply because of the past positive experience.

The idea is the customer thinks: "Look at this amazing product Nvidia is producing! They must have great engineers working on bleeding edge technology!".

Even if they don't buy the $3000 GPU, they now associate Nvidia with high quality GPUs which may influence them to buy Nvidia product in the future.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/halo-effect.asp