It is interesting to see his reaction to reality. He finds out that people think he's peddling bullshit, and instead of asking why they think that, he dismisses them as irrational... That's one way to run a company, but only if your company has a monopoly and customers can't run away even if they want to.
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He might be the dumbest ceo out there, and that is an impressive feat.
Nope. Ballmer is and always will be the all time king R. He's the dude that had MS pilot away from handheld devices because nobody will ever use cell phones. This was when MS was the only credible mobile OS. He oversaw Vista, he oversaw 8, both of which were complete disasters.
Glad I covered my tracks with a well placed 'might' lol.
I forgot about that idiot and would love to go back to forgetting them.
Stiff competition, that. This guy is just playing it safe, saying what his bosses want to hear.
Pro tip: when your customers don’t like your product, it’s not their fault. It’s yours, and the appropriate response is not complaining or incredulity that people don’t like it. The appropriate response is to change the product or scrap it completely.
"The customer is always right" might get misused a lot, but it is correct in this instance.
If a lot of your customers don't like something, it's not something wrong with the customers.
One of the older variations of the expression is, "The customer is always right in matters of taste." Here we're talking about reactions to reality, so it doesn't quite apply directly, but still, these people are probably honest about what they feel.
I always wonder if these areas the people's legit feelings or is this "just for the sake of the show".
I must be ceo material. I use this same type of argument when my partners seem unimpressed with my sexual performance.
If you think you need to blame the people for not being impressed by your product, the problem isn't with the people.
Determinism is generally a quality I look for in computers
THIS
I can't recall ever liking almost every single comment in a post before, what a fucking rush.
Oh, it's very impressive, but I still want to drop it into a trash compactor though.
people are unimpressed with the ability to talk fluently with an AI computer.
I already communicate fluently with my computer. I double click an icon to communicate to my computer "open this". I type into a search field to communicate "find this string".
At no point do I want to communicate to my computer "log everything I do, then use those logs to give me something that isn't what I'm asking for."
Of course they will never define "fluent". They can't do that because then they'd be proven as lying hacks, or else setting a low bar that was met several years ago.
I already communicate fluently with my computer. I double click an icon to communicate to my computer “open this”.
Wish I could upvote this twice.
At no point do I want to communicate to my computer “log everything I do, then use those logs to give me something that isn’t what I’m asking for.”
Won't stop them from trying to shove it down our throats.
What’s mind blowing is this guy doesn’t get dick and windows sucks
I don’t want to talk fluently with a computer, I want it to do things deterministically in a way I as a human being cannot. If I want a discussion, I have it with a human being.
Exactly, if I wanted a discussion with a computer, I wouldn't have gotten married.
Call me old fashoined, but i like my computers to do exactly what I yell them to do.
Best typo ITT by far.
Business Idiots. Ed Zitron wrote a whole thing about how many business leaders are out of touch with users and their own products. They live in their own little pocket dimension with each other, and only really care about shareholders.
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a fucking newspaper guy, why they write about AI so much, you think ?
please clap
Jeb!
You know what would impress me? That I would be able to start using my computer when I boot it in the morning.
As it stands I have to wait some 5 to 10 minutes before the mouse pointer decides to cooperate with me. And god forbid I attempt to start a Teams meeting, either the camera, mic or screen share will not work at all.
What the hell is this dumbass operating system doing that is more important than responding to the damn user?
Same machine, booting Linux, lets me start working right away. No stuttering, no freezes. Go figure.
Install an outbound firewall and be horrified by how much Windows phones home and how much telemetry it continuously exfiltrates without your consent.
It's sad that all of those things were solved problems 20 years ago.
Like, Skype was usable on pretty much any computer with a webcam in 2006. Computers booted in a couple minutes with their spinning disk drives.
The tech is faster, more reliable, higher resolution, etc, but the software is fucking ass.
Using electron for seemingly every app will do that.
Probably more to do with the fact that every app is now designed to gather as much data as possible to build an ad profile on you.
Yeah I doubt that's the issue on a PC with 64GB RAM.
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I've AIed your computer, without your consent... where are my applause?!
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