This is a phenomenal visualisation. I wish I saw this when I was trying to wrap my head around transformers a while ago. This would have made it so much easier.
I feel like this is kind of an open secret and the analytics about an ad that google or facebook give to advertisers must be taken with a grain of salt.
That is why every serious advertiser runs their own analytics about how many people visited their site from the ad, return per ad spend etc.
Of course this is harder to do on broader, brand awareness campaigns but can still be tracked to an extent.
Yeah, with them touting watching movies and only having "up to 2 hours" of battery, that's going to severely limit the movies you can watch. "Everything, Everywhere, All At Once", which they showed someone watching, is 2.2hrs.
So, no poor people get this. I mean, it is the cost of nearly 7 hours work if you only make minimum wage. It doesn't really matter if the money will be refunded - it can't be used on food while the company holds the money for weeks.
Honestly, they should be required to simply have a case worker look at everything if the person has exhausted other options. Those other options should be easily found on the company's website (or facebook page, etc). And the case worker should actually have the power to decide either way, free from coercion and without quotas leaning either direction.
They will pay someone on the other side of the planet 5 cents to spend 30 seconds applying a checklist of strict conditions against your case that if not met means you're SOL.
I like the idea, while thinking the next steps in case that goes wrong gives me a pause. What do you do if that person you get for 50$ seems incompetent? Exponentially increasing fees to get a review?
Remembering again, perfection is the enemy of good, what we have here is more than good enough for most of the cases perhaps.
In 2041, Google begins offering a service where you can pay $28 ($50 in USD2041) for a human to review your claim. Since it costs them $8 to do this, they will allow you to appeal their decision as many times as you want.
In 2042, a data analyst discovers that routing claims to a specific subset of reviewers maximizes this revenue stream and updates the business logic accordingly.
This is a business model for many hardware vendors who sell support and insurance with gross profit margin of more than 50% so I don't think it might improve the situation all that much in the long run.
There kind of is this with many companies these days. It's called arbitration. Someone did it with PayPal a while ago for example (ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33462658). In many cases it's free, but in some (especially b2b) there might be terms that say each needs to pay their own fees or that winner needs to pay loser's fees.
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