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Actually, in the PC/laptop space, I believe this phenomenon has been waning somewhat over the past... oh, the better part of a decade. This is a result of: *

Actually, in the PC/laptop space, I believe this phenomenon has been waning somewhat over the past... oh, the better part of a decade. This is a result of: * Single-core performance no longer dramatically improving - almost plateauing * The rate or extent of "bells and whistles" and other OS overhead being added - decreasing. * Budget consumer CPUs having reached smooth desktop performance (with sufficient memory and and an SSD) already, even with multiple applications open. .. and all of these had not been the case during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Now, if your machine's hardware doesn't brake down - and you're just a plain desktop user - your motivation for throwing away your machine is quite limited. --- Of course, this is not the case for smartphones, we're still on the roller-coaster there.

genocidicbunny 4y ago
I would say we're coming to that point with phones too. Phones have also largely reached the end of their breakneck big-annual-improvement phase; There's little annual improvement in performance, power consumption, form factor or feature set. Screen resolutions are plenty high for most users, similar for the cameras. Most people would also probably be quite happy with the version of Android or iOS they are using if it kept getting bugfixes and security updates.
- rurp 4y ago
  > Most people would also probably be quite happy with the version of Android or iOS they are using if it kept getting bugfixes and security updates. Absolutely! Most non-tech folks would be delighted by this. Regular users generally don't care one bit about whatever fad style or trendy feature got added with the latest update, they are just annoyed that their buttons or icons got moved around.
  - genocidicbunny 4y ago
    > Most non-tech folks would be delighted by this. And many tech folks too. My phone is a tool, not a lifestyle. I don't need my tools constantly changing out from under me.
    - CrimsonCape 4y ago
      Here's an anecdote. I like to look at websites that offer "last season" outdoor gear at discounted prices. The major frustration is that the sizes are never my size of shoe/shirt/etc because the popular sizes are gone sooner than the odd sizes. There is no "domain-specific" improvement (The "domain" in this case being "last season discount retailer.") to the basic shopping cart ecommerce experience that would give me a way to flag my interested product or product category so that I could be notified when the item is in-stock. This basic feature would vastly improve my interaction with the websites and would probably result in higher sales. In today's world, that's a huge ask to have that kind of feature implemented. Heck, even asking for a good "syntaxable" search seems to be an impossible ask. Imagine being able to search "Category: Shoes; Brand: "North Face"; Price: >50&&<120" The fact that this is never implemented yet billions of dollars are poured into ecommerce development kinda reflects how the industry is focused on improving the tooling/back end and not the design. I see vastly more posts in this vein: "Nobody really knows how this complicated spaghetti-like system works" than in this vein: "X tool allowed us to build a Maserati of our domain."

genocidicbunny 4y ago

I would say we're coming to that point with phones too. Phones have also largely reached the end of their breakneck big-annual-improvement phase; There's little annual improvement in performance, power consumption, form factor or feature set. Screen resolutions are plenty high for most users, similar for the cameras. Most people would also probably be quite happy with the version of Android or iOS they are using if it kept getting bugfixes and security updates.

rurp 4y ago
> Most people would also probably be quite happy with the version of Android or iOS they are using if it kept getting bugfixes and security updates. Absolutely! Most non-tech folks would be delighted by this. Regular users generally don't care one bit about whatever fad style or trendy feature got added with the latest update, they are just annoyed that their buttons or icons got moved around.
- genocidicbunny 4y ago
  > Most non-tech folks would be delighted by this. And many tech folks too. My phone is a tool, not a lifestyle. I don't need my tools constantly changing out from under me.
  - CrimsonCape 4y ago
    Here's an anecdote. I like to look at websites that offer "last season" outdoor gear at discounted prices. The major frustration is that the sizes are never my size of shoe/shirt/etc because the popular sizes are gone sooner than the odd sizes. There is no "domain-specific" improvement (The "domain" in this case being "last season discount retailer.") to the basic shopping cart ecommerce experience that would give me a way to flag my interested product or product category so that I could be notified when the item is in-stock. This basic feature would vastly improve my interaction with the websites and would probably result in higher sales. In today's world, that's a huge ask to have that kind of feature implemented. Heck, even asking for a good "syntaxable" search seems to be an impossible ask. Imagine being able to search "Category: Shoes; Brand: "North Face"; Price: >50&&<120" The fact that this is never implemented yet billions of dollars are poured into ecommerce development kinda reflects how the industry is focused on improving the tooling/back end and not the design. I see vastly more posts in this vein: "Nobody really knows how this complicated spaghetti-like system works" than in this vein: "X tool allowed us to build a Maserati of our domain."