It’s just about convincing investors that you’re going places. Customers don’t have to want your new features or buy more of your stuff because it has them. Users certainly don’t have to want or use them. Just do buzzword-driven development and keep the investors convinced that you’re the future.
Capitalism’s biggest lie is that people have freedom to chose what to buy. They have to buy what the ruling class sells them. When every billionaire is obsessed with chatbots, every app has a chatbot attached, and if you don’t want a chatbot, sucks to be you then, you have to pay for it anyway.
Sponsors maybe? Adding features because somebody influential wants them to be there. Either for money (like shovelware) or soft power (strengthening ongoing business partnerships)
So, um, who buys them?
It’s just about convincing investors that you’re going places. Customers don’t have to want your new features or buy more of your stuff because it has them. Users certainly don’t have to want or use them. Just do buzzword-driven development and keep the investors convinced that you’re the future.
Capitalism’s biggest lie is that people have freedom to chose what to buy. They have to buy what the ruling class sells them. When every billionaire is obsessed with chatbots, every app has a chatbot attached, and if you don’t want a chatbot, sucks to be you then, you have to pay for it anyway.
A midlevel director who doesn’t use the tool but thinks all the features the salesperson mentioned seem cool
Sponsors maybe? Adding features because somebody influential wants them to be there. Either for money (like shovelware) or soft power (strengthening ongoing business partnerships)
Stockholders
Stockholders want the products they own stock in to have AI features so they won’t be ‘left behind’