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That reminds me of Futurama episode where Bender finds a phone booth: "Now I don't need to carry my phone with me all the time!" Progress is sometimes a regres
by dmitriy_ko 8y ago
That reminds me of Futurama episode where Bender finds a phone booth:
"Now I don't need to carry my phone with me all the time!"
Progress is sometimes a regress in disguise.
- felipemnoa 8y agoI've noticed this with mature technology. There comes a point where a product is perfect, no need to add anymore features. But the manufacturer still wants to continue adding new features so that they can use those as new selling points. Unfortunately the new features end up making the product worse.
- gsich 8y agoSmartphones today.
- kadendogthing 8y agoReally? I think the smart phones we have are pretty brilliant and functional.
- geezerjay 8y agoNoot being able to upgrade the OS is a glaring design problem, so there's still work to be done.
- kadendogthing 8y agoI upgrade my OS all the time.
- reshie 8y agopretty much. nothing can be perfect for everyone. we still have room for advancement and refinement though and who knows of future breakthroughs.
- picsao 8y agoSeems you accidently hit the bugbye-button and dropped out midsentence. What good is it if you are a industries shillbilly and still have to use the same crappy hardware as the rest of us.
- chrismcb 8y agoSmart phones today have a long way to go before they come even close to perfect
- gsich 8y agoYou can already see that manufacturers have a hard time to come up with new features. Stuff like thinner devices (nobody cares or wants this to a certain degree, compared to a better battery life), 3+ cameras, notches because for some reason you can't integrate speakers behind the display. "AI" stuff that doesn't work when you're offline. I would trade all this shit for a week battery time. So yes, while smartphones are not perfect, I see no intentions from developers to fix that.
- kadendogthing 8y ago>nobody cares or wants this to a certain degree, compared to a better battery life Then why do consumers constantly praise thinner phones, and continue to purchase them? I think you're mistaking what you want and consider a good choice compared to what everyone else actually wants and is willing to support.
- Hextinium 8y agoThe purchasing of the new best thing can also be the case, take for example that there hasn't been a flagship phone that actually fits in most peoples single hand since the SE and yet I know lots of people that will just "buy the next Iphone" because thats what they have done for 5 years with no consideration for ergonomics.
- kadendogthing 8y ago>take for example that there hasn't been a flagship phone that actually fits in most peoples single hand since the SE Both my iPhone and Pixel 3 fit my hand. I'm 5'6.
- gsich 8y agoBecause there is no alternative. It's not legit to say "people like thin smartphones more" when you are only making thin ones. Same for the headphone jack.
- Camillo 8y ago2015 MacBook Pro was the peak for laptops.
- x0 8y agoNobody's happy with keeping things how they are anymore, unfortunately. Got to keep moving fast and keep breaking things, no matter how well they worked. Not introducing new features feels like stagnation to investors and shareholders.
- Lio 8y agoYou mean like an electric toothbrush with Bluetooth? I’d love to have been in the design meeting where thry decided that was more important than world voltage compatibility. “World voltage are you mad? Who packs a toothbrush when they go travelling? Nope, what the people are clamering for is bluetooth support!”
- rahimnathwani 8y agoLack of world voltage is probably deliberate. Braun/Oral-B toothbrushes are usually cheaper in the US than in other countries (e.g. the UK) that use 220/240V. The UK-bought toothbrushes will work fine in the US. I've had one US-bought base unit fail and, given the simplicity of the device (just coils for transforming voltage and induction charging) I'm assuming it's due to being plugged in to a 220V outlet for an extended period.
- kraftomatic 8y agoMy toothbrush has a usb charger which I just use for travelling. Actually really handy as its just a cord so much smaller than a regular charger.
- speedplane 8y agoWhat product has ever been perfect?
- sh87 8y agoAlmost anything that does one thing and does it well.
- tx21 8y agosounds like the iphone for the last 5 years
- webster23 8y agoJust nitpicking, but I believe it was Hermes, not Bender. edit: https://external-preview.redd.it/QkC-IFnu4weXJdqXPJCgaswRHAyaaZHvMgjJ_aJyiyg.png?auto=webp&s=b73aac3bb716a4fdd8623de21c993054f973ed64 https://external-preview.redd.it/QkC-IFnu4weXJdqXPJCgaswRHAy...
- dmitriy_ko 8y agoyou are right. I'm sure Bender has always on internet connection, so he doesn't need a phone to make phone calls:)
- majewsky 8y agoHe does get an eyePhone, though, and iirc he can be seen throwing away his previous phone because of it.
- Nition 8y agoPlus a wired landline phone is always charged, with excellent reception.
- anoncoward111 8y agoAnd in the US can be had for like $10 a month as opposed to $30 minimum for verizon prepaid
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- twunde 8y agoNitpick: typically they have excellent reception. _However,_ with many copper lines not being maintained and especially in some rural areas, reception can be awful to unusable.
- ryacko 8y agoThe backbone is increasingly digital or wireless.
- lostapathy 8y agoWe have landlines at one facility that are terrible. Loud hum on every call. Rural area with poor cell service too.
- FabHK 8y agoPOTS (plain old telephone service) is really amazing in many ways. Huge reliability, independent of the ordinary power grid, dead simple consistent UI, etc. (I have an IP phone at work, and it's an unintuitive unreliable beast.)
- gaius 8y agoRight. It’s no big deal for anyone if there’s no mobile signal but no dial tone is shocking. Even when there’s a power cut the landlines still work. I have probably only experienced an outage of POTS a couple of times in my life.
- dunnevens 8y agoReminds me of an old scifi story. Someone in a far future or advanced alien society runs across a paper book. "A means of conveying information without needing power and without the risk of surveillance? Excellent!" (paraphrased from memory).
- exikyut 8y agoI like How Wall-E played that concept really hard.
- jacobush 8y agoIt did?
- ballenf 8y agohttps://youtu.be/lqDhWTgOAiY https://youtu.be/lqDhWTgOAiY Captain is handed a manual when plant life is discovered. Took him a second to stop talking to the book and start using his hands on the pages. It was a pretty quick scene, but humorous. Side note, the Wall-E short is great and one of the best Pixar shorts, imo.
- drkrab 8y agoReminds me of this classic https://youtu.be/pQHX-SjgQvQ https://youtu.be/pQHX-SjgQvQ
- asg 8y agoThere a great Asimov story on these lines. Its called 'The fun they had'. Highly recommended. I read it aeons ago as a kid, and its stuck with me ever since.
- taneq 8y agoThere was also that (Asimov? Clarke?) story about a space ship which has its computer knocked out by a meteoroid and can't navigate back to Earth until someone on-board turns out to know how to use an abacus.
- umichguy 8y agoReplacing the 3.5mm headphone jack with USB-C or Bluetooth, even when some devices seemingly have space to accommodate them easily. I hate progress for progress sakes. And audio quality on most Bluetooth headphone/earphones sucks. And now I have to carry a zillion dongles for everything.
- speedplane 8y agoRemoving the headphone jack was a ballsy move, and Apple certainly knew it would irritate many. But wireless headsets is arguably much better (at least Apple thinks so). So kudos to Apple for having going out on a limb to support something they really believe un.
- qxzw 8y agoIn Dune[0], they had Butlerian Jihad[1], revolution against an AI of the sorts. Hopefully in real world they'll outlaw nuclear weapons. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel) [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad