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Yeah, picking on the upgrade wording is tricky, and cuts both ways. It has a common, semi-specific meaning with computers, but has also been used for far longer

Yeah, picking on the upgrade wording is tricky, and cuts both ways. It has a common, semi-specific meaning with computers, but has also been used for far longer in the more general way it's used here. If you say "I upgraded my stereo system", I would consider the chance you meant that to imply you got better versions of the same devices from the same manufacturer to be essentially nil. I'm that respect, it may seem misleading if you do a lot of work with computer or have for many years, buts maybe it isn't much to a layperson?

veridies 8y ago
If you said you upgraded your stereo, though, I’d expect you bought something pretty clearly nicer, eg by moving from a pair of PC speakers to a professional hifi. I wouldn’t expect that you’d have moved from one well-respected hifi manufacturer to another with different tradeoffs. Admittedly IE is pretty awful, but Chrome and FF are effectively comparable; “upgrade” is too strong a word for switching between them.
- kbenson 8y ago
  > I wouldn’t expect that you’d have moved from one well-respected hifi manufacturer to another with different tradeoffs. I think you either have more respect for manufacturers and how they advertise, or have a higher estimation for people's ability to successfully wade through marketing bullshit than me. Here's a question, is replacing your stereo cables with gold plated monster cables an "upgrade"? What do you think the average person thinks. > Chrome and FF are effectively comparable that depends quite a bit on the criteria used to judge them. If you value your privacy, I don't think the are comparable (as a synonym for similar) at all.