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Edwird -> RE: Why do microsoft, google, etc, absolutely despise old people? (12/30/2016 6:22:50 PM)
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
Would not the question be "Why does Microsoft, Google, etc absolutely despise old people?"
The title is "Why do microsoft, google, ect, ... " because in the English I was taught, the plural verb case is 'do,' the singular verb is 'does.' ("Why do they," not "Why does they.") And yes, the uncapped names were intentional. None of these companies deserve anything close to respect for the way they treat anybody, much less senior citizens.
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However, considering the accessibility functions built into the latest Windows and Android operating systems (not to mention that fucking talking 'helper' in Windows 10) I think that they are actually gearing a lot of products with older people in mind.
Making 80+ yr. olds go through a process they can't get through in the first place to figure out how to deal with otherwise entire processes targeted to 15-25 yr. olds is not something everyone would consider as putting forth their best effort in that regard. Just my estimation.
There are still 80yr. olds who have no need at all for accessibility functions, they are just wondering WTF happened to their email or their browser.
I can assure you, just like almost anything else in the consumer sector, self-awareness of whom these companies aspire to target vs. even the most basic understanding of the target itself are worlds apart, thanks to their unfathomably clueless efforts regarding the latter being ultimately trampled in any case by the former. If you've read two 'consumer surveys,' you would realize that marketing is all about targeting and nothing to do with what people actually want.
In any case, I finally figured out how to push Cortana out of my parents' (and my own) life by not only 'turning it off' and then eliminating it from start up programs (but it's still there in 'services' if you look in Task Manager), by going into Windows Firewall 'rules' and at least preventing the stupid thing from uploading or downloading anything, which was microsofts' W 10 marketing malware ('marketingware), as exists everywhere, not to single them out.
"Marketing" has existed for eons before cybermarketing ever came along, why don't people get what's going on, here? Just like mailers and telemarketing, they're just targeting, they don't care how many people they piss off in the process. But the newer the technology, the more people they can inconvenience in the process, and the reach and magnitude of that inconvenience increases exponentially. The race since cyber world is to make that reach and magnitude of inconvenience as unavoidable as possible. Hence the reach into operating systems, to not just allow but to enhance that process.
But we could tell the old folks to just get Linux, delve into how to use a proxy, use VPN, ... and their browser look and email access would always be the same, right? I can't tell you how many 80 yr. olds would be overjoyed by this modality.
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Consider every trick we have learned over the years to get the various windows operating systems operating the way we want are no longer applicable in windows 10.
Now you're starting to get it. Self determination interferes greatly with aspirations of marketing, and value to marketing is the ONLY selling point (only method of monetization) of consumer tech companies and social media companies. The modern operating system is now a 'consumer operating system' and is geared to that(marketing)- good luck with the rest of it.
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Where techs and engineers appreciate the "Keep It Simple Stupid" approach to achieving a desired result, the rest of the world wants it to be complicated to the point of insanity.
So it is not Microsoft, Google etc that hates people, it is the consumers that hate themselves.
Right.
All 12 yr. olds and all 82 yr. olds just want the same thing from high tech, as evidenced by the great disparity in choice of which predominant device or for which purpose, but they keep shooting themselves in the foot even all just wanting the same thing. Got it.
Read above.
It's not 80 yr. olds and certainly not teenagers who are the problem, here. Don't blame teenagers and 20-30 yr. old game players for increasing inaccessibility to people who have no use for any of that to even get to their email with out changing the process every two years and requisite Russian interrogation and revisited phishing expedition by mental diarrhea cybermarketting fuckbrains. The latter who most obviously have not only taken over the internet, but seemingly any and every enterprise technology associated with it.
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