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Is it not expected for people (or generations) to learn new things (and not learn obsolete things)? My kids learned how to navigate Apple TV and the Apple TV r
by lotsofpulp 2y ago
Is it not expected for people (or generations) to learn new things (and not learn obsolete things)?
My kids learned how to navigate Apple TV and the Apple TV remote at age 3 to go to Infuse or PBS kids app. And I tell them to turn off the TV after x episode of y time limit, and they know how to do that.
- pempem 2y agoI think this ignores that marketing is essentially insidious. The goal is to get you to do more of x. We spend a lot of life building up the mental tools and energy and math skills to understand whether we actually want to do x or whether someone has simply suggested it very strongly. Asking a 3 year old to develop that mental faculty just because we are a new generation learning new things feels incorrect.
- ClumsyPilot 2y ago> Is it not expected for people (or generations) to learn new things If they are useful, and's an improvement, sure But we just enshittified an experience that used to be good, and now have to ‘learn’ to cope with it
- lotsofpulp 2y agoI beg to differ. I prefer being able to search and select and instantly watch whatever I (or the kids) want (due to high reliability of broadband internet), over transporting physical media back and forth from a store or library and putting it into a dedicated machine for it. I specifically recall how annoying it was to change the input on a TV because for some reason, manufacturers didn’t put that button on TVs or all remotes. If my 3 year olds can learn to navigate tvOS to the right app or infuse library and pick the Bluey episode they want, I feel like it’s a pretty good sign of things not being shitty.