I hate that companies are trying to turn cars into consumer electronics.
The switch to EVs should have been an opportunity to make cars simpler, with fewer points of failure, and yet that's being overshadowed by this nonsense.
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I fully agree with you. However I feel this trend will only worsen. People are walking around with WiFi connected water bottles, toothbrushes... It feels like any modern appliance has a fuck ton of useless added complexity. People should be demanding this stop but I feel like we're in the minority by caring about the issue. Basically all most of these features do is increase our spending and waste. :(
At a conceptual level, I really like the whole idea of an everything personal area network where it all integrates into more than the sum of its parts a la various examples in cyberpunk media.
The reality of it, or at least this inception of it, blows. Though part of it is usually because if some trivial unnecessary gimmick breaks, the whole device is a lost cause. This is a feature, not a bug, to the people who sell them.
I'm not sure who you folks all hang out with. Most the folks I know skip 90% of that crap.
Not sure what your point is...
- if these products didn't sell well, we wouldn't see them on the rise.
- perfect example of what I mean: I just got back from the gym, where there are several treadmills with touchscreens, loaded with complicated features most people would never even use. They take longer to get started and have more tedious controls. There is a single older treadmill that works great and can be started and stopped in a couple of seconds. Unless all of the treadmills are full, I rarely see anyone on the older one. I feel like I'm the only one who prefers it out of all the random gym-goers.
So yeah, doesn't have all that much to do with "who I hang out with". It's just an easily observed pattern in society.
Hmm weird how if you cannot find a way to be contrarian you go silent.
Not sure what you want. I don't have a link, you are just rambling about experience too 🤷♂️
Just because a product exists, doesn't mean it's popular. Maybe the folks around you buy stupid shit. Maybe the folks around me do not buy dumb shit which is popular in droves. Who knows 🤷♂️
Right I guess I just live in a stupid place. Unlike The Fabulous Contrarian
Just because a product exists, doesn't mean it's popular.
If you're denying the products are on the rise, you're a straight moron.
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