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Is US tech even good anymore? Do none of us not encounter the massive amount of shit from companies like Google, MSFT, Apple, Amazon, etc as users? Truly terrib
by shimman 10mo ago
Is US tech even good anymore? Do none of us not encounter the massive amount of shit from companies like Google, MSFT, Apple, Amazon, etc as users? Truly terrible bugs or user flows from engineers that clearly don't care while everyone is just collecting their own share of blood.
I can't think of a single thing that big tech has done to improve my life, or society for that matter, over the last 10 years.
All US Tech has is the backing of the US government and that is likely to change in the coming decade, without the pressure of the US government would these companies be as competitive? We see what happens when others try to, rightfully I might add, regulate them: they throw extreme hissy fits and pressure the US government to force the countries to back off (by threat of sanctions or military action).
- kuerbel 10mo agoI sell/work as a consultant for m365 and azure and the services are definitely getting worse. AI translated garbage docs in which "plane" is translated as aeroplane (Flugzeug), Exchange as "Umtausch" (literal meaning of to exchange something) and so on. Obviously those are the ones I can remember because they were funny. There are also other errors that are not as obvious. And don't get me started on slopilot being everywhere.
- OGEnthusiast 10mo ago> I can't think of a single thing that big tech has done to improve my life, or society for that matter, over the last 10 years. Apple silicon has been pretty transformative for desktop/laptop-class chips.
- politelemon 10mo agoIt has been transformative for the insidious kind of lock-in that the post mentions.
- shimman 10mo agoI had CPUs since I've been alive, a faster one means very little to mean when the subsequent software is still trash.
- steve1977 10mo agoTransformative sounds a bit exaggerated. It has a nice power consumption to compute power ratio, but it's not like order of magnitude above the rest. A lot of the Apple Silicon magic is also due vertical integration with the OS IMHO.
- lelanthran 10mo ago> Apple silicon has been pretty transformative for desktop/laptop-class chips. "Transformative"? Were you perhaps being sarcastic (I misread sarcasm sometimes).
- BlackjackCF 10mo agoI see US (software) tech going the way of Boeing and Intel in the next decade. I’m not sure what their long term goals are, or if they even have any beyond chasing large/quick short term profits, but you can only enshittify your product and abuse your customers for so long before they start abandoning you.
- fooker 10mo agoI predict the cloud providers survive.
- fooker 10mo agoWhat has Rome ever done for us?
- nxm 10mo agoNo, US tech is driven by investors willing to risk allocating a ton of capital towards companies and products that have a good chance of succeeding. Europe has been struggling and behind on tech and investments way before Trump. It’s policy and over regulation that prevents Europe from making any inroads
- cudgy 10mo agoLess US software and hardware is made in US with offshoring and Chinese manufacturing and quality is dropping …