Given that, it's no surprise that using any big tech product in the current year is a sad, underwhelming, mildly frustrating experience. Everyone seems to have

Given that, it's no surprise that using any big tech product in the current year is a sad, underwhelming, mildly frustrating experience. Everyone seems to have collectively forgotten how cool it felt to use gmail back in the day, for example. Getting an iPhone 3GS was, for me, magical. But the incentives and economic realities are so vastly different right now, I wonder if we'll ever recapture that spirit.