Hate to be a nostalgia freak, but it’s sad that we have gone 1 step forward 2 steps back. Technology is no longer used as a tool, but moreover as a toy for millennials.
Windows 7 is one footnote in technology history, and it’s sad to see next year, it’s losing its support. Instead, windows 10, the hard to learn buggy mess, which tries to get you to change your password every 10 days. Remember when computers would improve in everything back then? Now, it’s almost like desktop and laptops are fading away, because people think that the iPhone is revolutionary, when it’s just an iPod touch with calling capabilities. Remember when the internet was free? Now it’s just a way to cram advertisements down your throat. And now these companies are making shitty products that are pretty much useless and only serve as data collection devices.
Amazon: A fucking online retailer. Google: A fucking search engine And now Facebook? What’s next? Is pornhub going to suddenly start making TVs that only play pornography?
It’s just sad to see this innovation go to waste. Nothing improves. The only changes in phones are wider screens.
A good idea surfaces, and some jackass will find a way to make money off of it.
I really feel like in the future, other countries will already be making fucking holograms, while in the US will be making shitty phones.
Remember the G3, ya know, the colorful computer? Why can’t any other computer be like the G3 in design?
It’s almost like we’re coming to an age where museums will be irrelevant, because MUh sNApChaT!
Ladies and gentlemen, we just witnessed a Zoomer become a Boomer.
Ian Lee
Bump
Daniel Roberts
I don’t understand understand lol
Kevin Ramirez
Im no communist but i really do blame capitalism, it doesnt encourage people to to create better shit, just encourages people to be better marketers Steve job himself said when a product doesnt make any extra money from advancements the marketers are the ones who become the focus and as time goes on the real talent leaves Throw in monopolys and you end up in our shitty timeline
Austin Howard
Honestly I have to agree.
Aiden Miller
B u m p
David Green
greed
Matthew Diaz
Never had the mac but I had other stuff that followed the awesome colored transparent plastic fad. That was a fun fan.
Jackson Cook
>Instead, windows 10, the hard to learn buggy mess, which tries to get you to change your password every 10 days. This is so embarrassing to keep reading stuff like this here. Am I doing something special to not have any problems with any OS, for the past decade? Am I just some OS savant?
Brayden Young
Probably because it’s ur opinion
Jason Rivera
I know it's semantics, but I remember using windows 7 and having to change my password every 4 weeks, while my password for my pc has been and always will be a single space, until i get windows hello I guess
Camden Flores
>implying zoomers cant never become boomers or even doomers because they played fortnight
Jonathan Miller
Saw something on Asmongold's yt channel, some biz lecturer talking about how when a product is made, it id the product people who are most important to the company. But once a product already exists the only people influencing how much money a company makes, and therefore climbing the company hierarchy, are salespeople. Steve Jobs running of apple compared to Tim Cook is a good example of this, the 'innovation' and growth the company saw, and the trust they built in the consumer base came from improving their products. Nowqdays with the microtransaction economy things tend to become, for lack of a better word, 'soulless' once they finish development and are handed over to the sales people to be squeezed for dollars
Ryder Cooper
W7 never once even let me know my password should be updated then again, you may have been using Enterprise or something more business-oriented
Lincoln Allen
The future internet will just have a few buttons connecting to YouTube Amazon and news sites
Isaiah Mitchell
Based and Strasserpilled
Joshua Campbell
No, issues can occur but these people are mostly incompetent.
Jason Green
I agree with some of his points, but Windows 10 isn't bad in that manner. It's fucking privacy invading and has plenty of security vulns, many probably backdoors, but it's not really a buggy mess. Windows always worked for me pretty fine, in fact Linux distros are more buggy in my experience than Windows is.
Brayden Brooks
virtually every version of windows NT has allowed you to set a password expiration policy that can be turned on or off on demand, per account as well
Zachary Phillips
We are shitty consumers and it's mostly our fault. If we didn't buy crap we wouldn't get crap.
Carter Scott
"The internet of things" is an all consuming cancer.
Michael Garcia
Or at least, it would be if people actually fell for that shit. How many people you know have smart lightbulbs?
Gabriel Gomez
This is just the nature of product maturity. Eventually the playing field levels and there are no real differentiators between products so companies resort to marketing and random quirks to pull in extra customers
Benjamin Allen
Technology is a tool, but it's nowhere near something like a hammer. It's has invisible, long reaching effects that will never be noticed by many. Ambitious people use it to shape civilization itself, and a lot of it is for the worse.
Easton Green
>Now, it’s almost like desktop and laptops are fading away, because people think that the iPhone is revolutionary, when it’s just an iPod touch with calling capabilities. The iPod Touch came after the iPhone. And as non-revolutionary as the iPhone might look to technically minded people who had been doing the same or even more than what the iPhone could do on other phones, it really was a revolution. Not because it brought anything new to the market, but because it appealed to the lowest common denominator. Not all revolutions have good consequences. >Remember when the internet was free? What are you on about? You've always had to pay ISPs for an Internet service. >Now it’s just a way to cram advertisements down your throat. And now these companies are making shitty products that are pretty much useless and only serve as data collection devices. You're quite naïve if you think datamining is a new thing. Products have come with registration cards since the 1960s, physical stores used to ask you for your phone number, your ZIP code and many other things. The Internet just makes it easier and cheaper for the companies to collect your data. >It’s just sad to see this innovation go to waste. Nothing improves. The only changes in phones are wider screens. Technology has been stagnant for close to a decade now. >Remember the G3, ya know, the colorful computer? Why can’t any other computer be like the G3 in design? The iMac (there's many "G3" computers, and the one you're referring to never contained that moniker in its name until the iMac G4 came out) did exactly the same thing with computers as the iPhone did with smartphones. It brought the Internet and computers to the lowest common denominator. You either praise both, hate both or don't give a fuck about both. Because they're the same category of product. Dumbed-down Internet terminals. I own a Ruby iMac DV and I love the thing, but sadly that's what it was designed to be.
Grayson Lee
>dude stop caring just give up lmao
Even if it was just as bad in the past, doesn't make their criticisms of the present any less valid.
Jose Clark
>dude stop caring just give up lmao If that's what you got out of my post, you should read it again. Never did I say these practices are defensible or that you should stop caring for your privacy. Not now, not ever. I'm just saying datamining is nothing new.
Jace Campbell
I'm waiting for Disney to merge with ExxonMobil and Chevron.
