mustang1
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Betamax gave better picture quality that VHS yet VHS was far more popular.
MP3 files gave worse quality sound than CD yet people still adopted it for convenience. (Some will argue that CD quality was worse than vinyl).
Bluetooth audio still doesn't work quite as well as it should, eg in a car.
Android and Windows are not designed as well as iOS, well there's an argument waiting in the wings, but I keep pressing bits of the android screen that I didn't mean to and so on. Windows always asks me if I'm sure I want to do something.
Hardware in the old days used to work fine. These days the hardware is released and if something doesn't work, we are told to wait for a firmware update. I want my hardware to work well on day one darnit! Example camera.
Ditto for software.
Techies have moved us to a release-often-release-early time. This has benefits because software is supposedly developed with higher quality yet when bugs are reported, the lead developers have moved onto the latest feature and bugs are left to be fixed by less skilled coders.
The words "viral" and "brutal" are overused, especially on YouTube. Eg: this brutal video has gone viral. Wth. Stop it! Also, stuff gets "leaked", like a new product is about to be launched and a news story is "leaked".
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And also these days mobile apps seem to need internet connection for everything, even for offline content. For example of Indore up Amazon Kindle, it hangs for the longest time while it panics about not being online, even when I want to read locally stored offline books. Madness.
MP3 files gave worse quality sound than CD yet people still adopted it for convenience. (Some will argue that CD quality was worse than vinyl).
Bluetooth audio still doesn't work quite as well as it should, eg in a car.
Android and Windows are not designed as well as iOS, well there's an argument waiting in the wings, but I keep pressing bits of the android screen that I didn't mean to and so on. Windows always asks me if I'm sure I want to do something.
Hardware in the old days used to work fine. These days the hardware is released and if something doesn't work, we are told to wait for a firmware update. I want my hardware to work well on day one darnit! Example camera.
Ditto for software.
Techies have moved us to a release-often-release-early time. This has benefits because software is supposedly developed with higher quality yet when bugs are reported, the lead developers have moved onto the latest feature and bugs are left to be fixed by less skilled coders.
The words "viral" and "brutal" are overused, especially on YouTube. Eg: this brutal video has gone viral. Wth. Stop it! Also, stuff gets "leaked", like a new product is about to be launched and a news story is "leaked".
Edit: this was edited.
Edit 2:
And also these days mobile apps seem to need internet connection for everything, even for offline content. For example of Indore up Amazon Kindle, it hangs for the longest time while it panics about not being online, even when I want to read locally stored offline books. Madness.
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