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Investors expect returns on their investments. If investors feel that the company is not working for the interests, they will no longer invest. A company that can't keep the shareholders happy is doomed.



Comrade Tovya said:
They are corporations.... they want us to be happy so they can have our money. I think you are mistaking them for non-profit charities.

 

Spot on.





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i think that guy that did the brain age "game" is pretty eccentric. he didn't ask for any money, just that nintendo donate some cash to the university that he teaches at.

i'm sure that made nintendo happy.



TheBigFatJ said:

All they care about is money in the same way that they'll do whatever they believe will make either their short-term profits, long term profits, or overall profit greater whenever possible.

For example, with the MS 3RROD issue the problem was obvious for nearly a year before MS acknowledged it and offered an extended warranty.  This is because MS thought it would be too expensive to fix the defective consoles they sold people, so they'd just ignore the problem.  They got hit with a class-action lawsuit, so they changed their tune.

A clearer example is when MS released the 360 knowing that the RROD was a problem.  They determined it was in their best interests as a company to literally screw millions of their customers by selling them defective hardware and hoped they could just fix it in the next manufacturing change (a few million consoles down the road).

Take a look at Ford.  There was a car in the past, I think the Pinto, where a design flaw left the car with a higher than normal chance of starting on fire due to accidents.  Ford decided not to fix it after calculating the cost of a recall and comparing it to the cost of the expected number of lawsuits.

These corporations don't care about you one bit unless you have money, in which case they care about you just enough to get your money.  They're obviously not going to say that.

 

 



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mtofu said:
i think that guy that did the brain age "game" is pretty eccentric. he didn't ask for any money, just that nintendo donate some cash to the university that he teaches at.

i'm sure that made nintendo happy.

 

Only in Japan brother, only in Japan.

In America, if you buy a homeless guy a meal, and then ask him to wash you windows, he still wants to get paid cash after he's done.



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they all want our money...they just have to work hard for it...



i didn't say it was to make up happy.

just they dont want out money :P.



I totally agree with eveyone saying they want our money, I know that, they will squeeze every last penny out of us. BUT that doesn't mean they don't want us to be genuinely happy at the same time?

Why do they only have to be money hungry? Why can't they want our money and to be happy (so we spend more) and be happy because they have built an amazing product and its customers are enjoying it.