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Comment Re:Google's own artificially made demand, you mean (Score 1) 47

Having the product stuck on the page makes it appear valuable. (Inflating user counts, familiarizing the public with the brand.)

When the product appears valuable, they can sell more of it (primarily to investors).

They have to give the product away to sell it to a few gullible people.

The fact that there's enough dumb money floating around to make it a worthwhile scam is a whole problem bigger still.

Comment Re:More IBM vaporware (Score 2) 19

OS/2 had no security features needed for multiuser support. It might as well have been classic MacOS. Citrix had a multiuser version of OS/2 with security tacked on, but it wasn't a realistic solution and was never popular. Building an OS without security was the moronic decision that killed it. Plus IBM never did anything meaningful to promote it so nobody cared. That it was used anywhere (especially in ATMs) was a horrible decision itself because of the lack of security features and has created untold woes. Maybe nobody ever got fired because they bought IBM, but they should have.

Comment Re: Good products (Score 4, Insightful) 102

It is neither right or wrong

It's wrong. The processor has a feature. People will reasonably assume they can use that feature. Then they find out it's disabled.

assuming the features or lack thereof is declared upfront.

If that declaration is not in the largest font size used in the materials then it's hidden.

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