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Originally Posted by hobnail
Using technology for a solution to a problem that doesn't need it.
Where I worked we had departments that needed an inventory system and they could have used Excel or Access, but no, the managers wanted us to write a web application for them.
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Yeah, that book had to cost...at least 2 grand to produce, if not 3x that. They really went to town on all the multimedia "solutions" that
The App Formerly Known as iBooks used to offer. They linked "songs" (I distinctly recall a Coldplay tune, that was allegedly one character's favorite song...) with links to buy it in the iTunes store; links to shoes that the character wore, like Jimmy Choos, with, yes, more links to buy.
Honestly, the whole damn thing was basically an advertisement, done up in a costume as a book. You know what it reminded me of? Product Placement in movies. That was the feeling I had, most strongly, when I endeavored to read it. Like trying to read a Yellow Pages, with a plot propped up around it.
You had to turn all the adverts, songs, links, etc., "off" when you wanted to simply sit down and read.
And of course, they designed it for the platform that had the fewest eBook sales, in terms of "the Big Three," being Amazon, B&N and Apple. The thing couldn't work anyplace else.
(SMH)
Hitch