Why are marketing people paid six figures just to come up with ineffective bullshit that any asshole off the street could come up with in five minutes?

Recent example is Intel dropping the i from their CPU branding. What was an Intel Core i7 is now an “Intel Core Ultra 7”. This is a bizarre choice. The i3, i5, and i7 branding is very much a household name, and they’re just throwing that away.

Infinitely worse, they’ve also thrown out their low end Pentium and Celeron CPU branding. Now they’re simply calling them all a generic “Intel Processor”. What the actual fuck? People avoid Pentiums and Celerons because they’re widely regarded the absolute bottom of the silicon barrel. Now instead of “don’t get a Celeron, it’s practically e-waste” it’s going to be “don’t get an INTEL PROCESSOR, it’s practically e-waste”. Holy shit.

A bunch of rich fucking failchildren got paid the big bucks for these ideas meanwhile I’m making min wage working infinitely harder while actually producing a non-negative surplus value for my employer to steal.

ashinadash,
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Funny enough, back when the Core-i branding was introduced, everyone bitched about what absurd nonsense it was, because it was absurd nonsense. So they waited 15 years to make it even worse.

This “Intel processor” shit is getting on my nerves with stuff like the Intel N100. Buy AMD.

lorty,

They are paid six figures do they have to come up with “bold” and “groundbreaking” rebrands that are counterproductive.

TreadOnMe,
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They aren’t counter productive, the point is to obfuscate enough to pretend that there are real consumer changes in a stagnant market.

It is counterproductive to product innovation and consumer selection, it is not counter productive for capital accumulation, which is the only thing that matters.

citrussy_capybara,
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can’t wait until risk5 silicone from China matures and takes over

blobjim,

They really should just get rid of the “Core Ultra” part. But NVIDIA also has the stupid “GeForce” branding. Model names at American companies suck so much. I get that it is kinda complicated with all the different variants (and price discrimination too probably i.e. Core vs Xeon).

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