Actually, I heard a retired phone company exec admit that it is true, about the voicemail slowness set up deliberately to up the billing from it. I mean, I heard him admit it in an interview on an PRI news program, and those news programs vet their sources better than most journalism enterprises (slippery slope there, I know).
But can I bib cite the exact program date and segment? No. By the nature of orality (and podcasting temporality), my memory tells me it was either the APM Marketplace Money segment, or APM Marketplace. I subscribe to both in iTunes, and I'd say it was in the last six months. That's as good as I can do. Yes, it is ethically slimey, but as technologically possible as those people who work the math for hedge funds to mine and aggregate all the percentages of a cent that can be skimmed from millions of broker float transactions. Chris On Nov 14, 2007 4:59 PM, Christopher Fahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am going to take a bit of an issue with the premis here. Unless > > they are showing a measurement that is specific (absolute numbers > > or percentage) and are distorting those numbers they are hardly out > > and out telling a lie. > > You're right that systems can be inaccurate due to technology > idiosyncrasies, but the specific story (or rumor) is that the mobile > carriers do it deliberately for the purpose of driving up minutes. In > which case, it's a lie. > > The premise of the question, really, is that we designers can be > asked by our bosses to design deceptive systems in order to increase > company profits. > > -Cf > > Christopher Fahey > ____________________________ > Behavior > biz: http://www.behaviordesign.com > me: http://www.graphpaper.com > ________________________________________________________________ > *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* > February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA > Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
