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It's common enough in computers and phones. Paranoid schizophrenia isn't too fun to witness. It sucks when you see it in a customer who won't leave or keeps coming back and there isn't much you could do.

|The way I see it, it's on the customer to know what the item is worth

Um. That's pretty much what he was saying.

We could easily make the device thicker to accommodate a larger battery. But consumers don't like thick devices.

This is disingenuous as long as major OEMs keep making thinner and thinner phones and apparently ignoring the biggest complaint/request- better battery life. You cannot honestly say consumers don't like something when you haven't even offered it.

Sure, you can do market research. But a group of people sitting around a table is not the same data set as people who walk into a phone store to actually put money down. You're not going to lose sales over 1 millimeter. You may, however, gain a lot of sales by having two day battery life.

That plus the aversion to sensible regulation. Their policies would give us a 21st century version of The Jungle. Of course, without a viable fiscal policy we'll have mass starvation due to an collapsed economy before fascism can take hold after deregulation.

|wanting every celebrity redditor to be more like Arnold...

That's not a bad idea and goal. I can see that as a reasonable thing to see if they can get working.

What baffles me is that they didn't think, "hey, maybe we can try that as well as keep up this very successful format we already have going!" They aren't mutually exclusive.

Throwing away a proven success for a mere idea, which relies on the good will and free work of various celebrities, is a terrible business decision.