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Step 1: Make discontent known to brand Step 2: Create/join community of fellow disaffected individuals Step 3: Use community to spread awareness of said dissatisfaction Step 4: Observe as sales of product fall off and brand reputation falters Step 5A: Observe as brand reverses unpopular decision and recovers OR Step 5B: Observe as brand is replaced in the market by one which better meets consumer preferences

>>Daz1+(OP)
Has this ever actually happened?

>>Daz1+(OP)
This has no actual effect on the underlying issue that nothing is stopping companies from doing this. In fact, if what you describe active ually happens a lot, it would be trivial to set up puppet competitors to your own products in order to recapture leaving costumers, repeat ad infinitum.

>>themoo+Ei
"it would be trivial to set up puppet competitors to your own products in order to recapture leaving costumers"

Citation needed

>>pdonis+Cf
The market is littered with the corpses of companies who failed to meet consumer demand.

>>Daz1+(OP)
> Step 5B: Observe as brand is replaced in the market by one which better meets consumer preferences

Step 0A- Realize that most mature industries are incestuous. They share the same consultants, they swap employees, they compete for the same market with the same group-think mindset, etc. They all have the same incentives and paradigm for success and thus often act in murmuration'ing way. That is, they're too big and too risk-adverse to consider innovation so they feign being competitive and milk the market the best they can.

Step 0B - Realize that for the most part the gov - via Cronie Capitalism - will not protect consumers, and will put the thumb on the scale for the largest players. Your rights and privacy - in the context of Surveillance Capitalism (which the gov benefits from) - are more myth than they are real.

Step 0C - Realize that all the steps follow are rarely successful. Sure, you can try but the odds are not in your favor. You end up paying the subscription and/or having your usage data sold in some black box cyber back room.

>>Daz1+Or
> companies who failed to meet consumer demand

What you claimed was a lot more specific than that. Do you have any actual examples of the specific sequence of events you claimed?