....right. So they want to meet consumer demands in order to maximize profits, and somehow that means they don't care about consumer demands? That doesn't sound like a very good company.
The flaw of corporations versus non-corporate businesses can be summed up as follows.
A non corporate business is usually investing its own money (partnership, individual, etc. -- people with direct ties to the loss, if any), and takes different risks than a corporation, which is generally investing someone else's money. Or more accurately, the corporation has a few people responsible for deciding how to invest a pile of money provided by someone else, with those few people having no direct ties to the loss, if any. They might be straight employees, or they might own a fraction of one percent of the shares.
The flaw of consumer demand or not is slightly different. While this is often attributed to corporations, it is not.
One school of business -- the "good" one -- says, "Lets find out what people want, and then make it". This is generally (but not exclusively) the small craftman type of business.
The second -- the problem, generally regarded as corporation -- says "Lets make something, and then see if people will buy it".
The second can make 2000 units, and try to market it across 100 million people if the advertising is cheap enough -- and if they can sell all 2000 units, they're happy. In doing this, repeatedly, over many cycles of business, the general rule of "Cut Corners, do it cheaper" has turned out to be the winning strategy because there is no real disclosure of what was "cheapened", generally no alternative if the customer wants something slightly different or slightly better, and no legal requirements for anything more than the minimum.
A business of this type does not care what the general consumer/customer wants. All they care about is being able to identify something that some people will want, and then say "Here it is, come and buy it". They don't have to look for customers, nor really figure out exactly what is wanted as long as they can be close.
