I have to disagree. Products were just more interesting in the 90s and even early 2000s. Tech is the line going through the big-suck right now but cars did the

I have to disagree. Products were just more interesting in the 90s and even early 2000s. Tech is the line going through the big-suck right now but cars did the same thing from the 1970's to the 2000's: where once you had different models and styles sporting different looks, different and novel features, etc. you see things slowly boil down to a few good exceptions and the rest of it might as well be all the same thing (and with the example of cars, often is, what with manufacturers selling to each other and re-badging for different markets.) Not long ago, shopping for a laptop was interesting. Did you want the one with the swiveling screen, or the one that was liquid cooled? The one with the super HD screen or the one with the built-in fold-out legs to angle the keyboard better? Thick keys or thin keys? Optical or no? A novel visual design or just as-thin-as-can-be? What were the pros and cons to all this? On and on. Now all laptops practically look identical, even something with a somewhat novel design becomes 2-3 times the price for no additional power, and all of them are designed to overheat and die within a couple of years, with the exception possibly of Macbooks, which cost a King's ransom. There's no novelty or interesting ideas, just the same old things.