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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1107292" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>That is a very good way of delineating the difference between "useful" features and what we are calling "bells and whistles". That said, the difference is very subjective (hence why they are in quotation marks). What is useful for you may be irrelevant to others. For instance, I am more concerned with the internals of my machine while others couldn't care less and would be happier with things like backlit keyboards. Because of this, it is largely unfair to claim that something is only there for marketing purposes because for someone else it may serve a need they have. The argument therefore that a feature is simply a marketing ploy is untenable. Someone will no doubt find a feature useful - if they didn't, manufacturers wouldn't build them into their products.</p><p></p><p>What I'm trying to get at here is that you can not state that others are suffering from a case of cognitive dissonance because you feel a certain way towards particular features. Some people do not define those features as marketing ploys and therefore, there is no dissonance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1107292, member: 71075"] That is a very good way of delineating the difference between "useful" features and what we are calling "bells and whistles". That said, the difference is very subjective (hence why they are in quotation marks). What is useful for you may be irrelevant to others. For instance, I am more concerned with the internals of my machine while others couldn't care less and would be happier with things like backlit keyboards. Because of this, it is largely unfair to claim that something is only there for marketing purposes because for someone else it may serve a need they have. The argument therefore that a feature is simply a marketing ploy is untenable. Someone will no doubt find a feature useful - if they didn't, manufacturers wouldn't build them into their products. What I'm trying to get at here is that you can not state that others are suffering from a case of cognitive dissonance because you feel a certain way towards particular features. Some people do not define those features as marketing ploys and therefore, there is no dissonance. [/QUOTE]
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