People seem to choose quality when they have an option. The rise of Apple is not because people are “sheep”, it’s because there is a quality level that apple products never go beneath- even if the design is stupid.
People can forgive poor quality with innovation, or in the pursuit of pure art- but the more crappy things get the more you notice people gravitating towards higher quality items/content.
The “issue” is when there’s a total monopoly or an oligopoly that is racing to the bottom, which seems to happen quite often, because building high margin things tends to be more risky, and MBAs are risk averse.
People seem to choose quality when they have an option. The rise of Apple is not because people are “sheep”, it’s because there is a quality level that apple products never go beneath- even if the design is stupid.
People can forgive poor quality with innovation, or in the pursuit of pure art- but the more crappy things get the more you notice people gravitating towards higher quality items/content.
The “issue” is when there’s a total monopoly or an oligopoly that is racing to the bottom, which seems to happen quite often, because building high margin things tends to be more risky, and MBAs are risk averse.