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Smartphone hardware is almost completely useless because of the software. At this point it's pretty obvious that the potential (but unrealizable) utility is jus
by msgodel 1y ago
Smartphone hardware is almost completely useless because of the software. At this point it's pretty obvious that the potential (but unrealizable) utility is just more of the luxury illusion they're selling.
- zxexz 1y agoI’m genuinely curious what your view on the unrealized potential is! I would love something new to hack on.
- msgodel 1y agoIt's a social problem not a technical one.
- leakycap 1y agoI think it is the lack of a non-touch keyboard, not a social problem. I have an Android phone with a physical keyboard and it is a totally different mindset when you can "check in" and communicate with the device/through the device without constantly checking/fixing the touchscreen/dictation errors.
- HaZeust 1y agoGreat! The fun thing about social problems is that you, yourself, can make routines and picky-preferences in life to avoid most of them for yourself! You could start today by taking away HackerNews from your routine - as well as other platforms and sites that perpetuate behaviors that meet your criticisms. If you do, you'll find that you'll stop feeling the need to project your scorn for the things you voluntarily surround yourself with!
- msgodel 1y agoYeah I actually don't own a smartphone at all. I don't know why you think I shouldn't talk about them after making that decision though.
- HaZeust 1y agoWell, with that in mind, have you noticed the problems you speak about going down in life? Was I right about the core of what a social problem is - and how it can be fixed? You're 100% correct to talk about your criticisms still, but you read as if it was still a problem in your everyday life, so I gave a suggestion more apt to that scenario. It didn't translate well, I apologize!
- rekenaut 1y agoIn my pocket, I have a wallet, timer, alarm clock, calculator, telephone, atlas, directory, camera, stock broker, flashlight, tape measure, television, music collection, encyclopedia, transit time table, library, notepad, and translator. How are these utilities an illusion?
- msgodel 1y agoThe few among those things that even reliably function are covered in ads and defects to the degree that you're better off without them. The illusion is that you're getting a computer and not a collection of knickknacks and appliances.
- Gigachad 1y agoAlmost none of those things have ads on the iPhone. All of them function reliably.
- worthless-trash 1y agoI mean, you're getting advertisements in your iWallet.. so...
- Gigachad 1y agoI'm not as that was US only but yes that was outrageous and hopefully never happens again.
- bacon_waffle 1y agoI regularly notice bugs when using iOS Mail; one that springs to mind would display one email's body with the header info from another email, it seems to have recently been fixed but was easily reproducible for weeks if not months.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 1y ago> covered in ads and defects to the degree that you're better off without them Someone is deluded, and it's either all of the people using these apps despite being worse off due to doing so... or it's you. (And we're talking about actual utility apps, not something that you could dismiss as a dopamine trap.)