Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Rounding numbers when selling computers

Have you ever noticed how some companies round numbers up and some round numbers down? I mean iMacs that are 21.5 inch screens are called 22 inch screens. MacBooks that are 11.6 inch screens are 12 inch? If you can’t take the time to give true numbers why not be at least consistent? That way we would at least have an idea of how you measure. This rounding of things is becoming more and more common. I’m not sure if this is copy writers being lazy or incompetent. At any rate the numbers that you see on advertisements should be accurate. After all you are buying a product and you expect that product to live up to what it was advertised at. I'm sure that nobody minds getting an extra half inch to the plus side but there are many many people out there who will be vastly disappointed at the fact that their monitor is a half inch smaller than advertised.

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