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Stuff doesn’t “go viral” because people are sharing it, stuff often “goes viral” because of companies like College Humor, Buzzfeed, Uproxx, AOL, and others that latch onto videos and content they think will bring them page views; then they all post about it so as not to lose out on potential page views.
If people liked wearing glasses, we wouldn’t live in a world where many people opt to wear contacts.
If you sell a low-priced app in the App Store with no free version, you make money from every tire kicker.
Selling a 99 cent app that has a free trial period? You’re probably doing it wrong. Actually, you probably, have a really low threshold for failure, deep-seeded self-esteem issues and should go see a therapist immediately.
I’m sorry to tell you this, but your idea that “old people want to be like young people” is just plain old narcissism. Your obsession with pandering to 18-34 year-olds is decades out of date and is simply a reflection of the high regard that young people in the marketing and advertising industries have always had for themselves.
Ad douchebags. Tech douchebags. Same people, different industry.
Tech Without Insight Is Like Chefs Without Taste
The problem with this sort of tech is that it might make sense in ‘theory’ but life doesn’t work like that.
Humans are suspicious, cautious, hypocritical beings – regardless of age – and to get people to embrace a completely new way of behaving needs time, trust, education or incentive and this device, as far as I know, has none of those … which goes to show that while technologists are incredibly smart, some are not very clever.