An alternate history world where technology grew without centralized cloud services and privacy is still a thing. Their systems are often inferior on a pure ea

An alternate history world where technology grew without centralized cloud services and privacy is still a thing. Their systems are often inferior on a pure ease-of-use aspect, but it's not "strictly worse". I found a lot of it to be just different compromises. It's still possible to live comfortably there without a smartphone. Not so much in other "smart cities" around the world.