There seems to be a whole genre of announcements from corporations and politicians where they partially backtrack on some all around terrible change while congratulating themselves on listening to their customers (with a clear undertone of bitterness about this being the case).
I can understand (without being particularly happy about) politicians having their own agenda that does not align with the majority of voters, but why is it that vendors producing widgets are so strong-willed about certain details? Why won't any car manufacturer make a car with no touchscreens except perhaps for a satnav that has no data link to the rest of the car electronics at all, or any laptop manufacturer make a laptop with non-chiclet keys (in the style of pre-x230 thinkpads)? Surely there would be a deeply underserved customer base to capture in both cases; one could really get the sense that corporations feel that satisfying those customers would be downright immoral.
I can understand (without being particularly happy about) politicians having their own agenda that does not align with the majority of voters, but why is it that vendors producing widgets are so strong-willed about certain details? Why won't any car manufacturer make a car with no touchscreens except perhaps for a satnav that has no data link to the rest of the car electronics at all, or any laptop manufacturer make a laptop with non-chiclet keys (in the style of pre-x230 thinkpads)? Surely there would be a deeply underserved customer base to capture in both cases; one could really get the sense that corporations feel that satisfying those customers would be downright immoral.