Why are sites forcing us to deal with features we explicitly don’t want? Take YouTube Shorts for instance. I’ve made it clear I hate these things, but they keep popping up on my homepage every other week. Every time, I have to click the “Temporarily Hide” button like a damn whiner.
I can just picture the internal YouTube meetings:
Manager: “We’re not getting enough engagement on Shorts.”
Developer: “Maybe our audience doesn’t like them?”
Manager: “I’ve got an idea! Let’s force Shorts onto everyone’s homepage for a week or two each time!”
Then, later, they celebrate like they’ve invented the internet.
Is this really how it’s supposed to work? Why else are companies shoving features down our throats we clearly don’t want? Is there no better way than to just keep throwing stuff at us and hoping we’ll stick around long enough to click “Hide This Annoying Feature” again?
🤔 What’s the deal with this endless pushing of features we hate? Are they just ignoring user feedback entirely, or is there some secret strategy I’m not seeing?
Fiduciary responsibility, companies have a legal obligation to not only protect but grow their investor’s money. Part of this is chasing trends that other companies have spent R&D on and found success with.
If Google found that they could make more money selling socks door-to-door than they do with YouTube, they’d have a legal requirement to do so.
No they do not. The investors can toss out the leadership if they aren’t performing as desired though which is the real driver.
That’s not what fiduciary duty means, and “companies” don’t have fiduciary duties unless they are banks or investment firms.
This is not correct. There is a such a thing as being “on mission”. Otherwise every single company would be forced by law to turn into an investment bank which has the highest profit margins. There is no world in which a software company is forced to start selling socks to uphold a legal obligation to the shareholders.
Actually they legally can’t do it without BOD approving such huge change to core business.
Management team is there to implement specific strategies, switching core business is not permitted for management without priro bod approval
You have the correct term, but that’s not exactly how it works. At my last job the CEO told the board that he intended to lose money building our staff, skills and core software products. They applauded him. (Oops, we made a profit on those years anyway, but the point stands.)
Fiduciary responsibility mainly means they have to make a good faith effort to protect and grow company finances. They have no obligation to drive the line up quarterly.