Right so…my phone the charging port breaks….get it the port repaired it craps out again….get a new phone charging port is working so far but sometimes the charge doesn’t catch…
Same thing with cars….better to lease every 3 years before the car craps out after 3.5 years…
You think ceos would help their company by pushing to make a more reliable products but no….gotta make shitty products as a lazy way to maintain the whole industry….
It’s fucking bullshit and it needs to change….because fuck the end user am I right.
Business is a complete kakistocracy… what happened to excellence, improving standards, and innovation.
Fuck outta here…
Maybe if companies made decent reliable products the world economy would be different instead of a national lampoon shit show with idiots screwing each other over to Benny Hill theme music.
the problem is that while you’re right, we keep buying into it. because we are convinced that we have to and this is all there. either do it this way, shut up and pay your money, or go be a luddite with you grandma.
also nothing on you but i would say at this point in time phones are the most resilient to user-fault damage than they’ve ever been. the real problem is the obsolescence of hardware when it comes to software upgrades. also btw, the iphone 69 has already been invented basically, but because capitalism we won’t see it for another 420 years probably
most of todays tech was science-fiction 40-60 years ago. Not necessarily invented, but conceptualised none-the-less. We are still conceptualising tech in today’s stories and the concept-to-tangible-product timeline is rapidly decreasing.
Work around the companies that make shitty products get a bad rep…consumer then starts voting with their wallet and the planned obselescence companies can’t compete in the marketplace with companies that make reliable products…
However when you got the same people sitting on several boards setting industry standards then it’s all fucked beyond repair.
And too bad the consumer is too dumb to RadioShack invent their own products to use.
Fuck it I’ll be a Luddite…
Most of this tech anyways is to quote the boondocks ignorant mothafucka technology.
I dunno, the either-or seems like bullshit to me. It’s marketing, FOMO, keeping up with the Joneses or whatever. You can pick the shit you want to invest in, that is actually legitimately useful to you, and ignore the rest of it. You can be tech savvy and modern and up-to-date without constantly buying the new fancy smallpox blankets.
The very idea that you have to continuously upgrade shit or have every last shiny thing is exactly what they’re selling you - the idea that you need it.
This 100%. Nothing has changed. We live in a fifties sitcom trying to sell us microwaves. My microwave is old, but it works. My computer is new and is cool. My friend who is 15 years my younger has a house decked out in old shit before both our times, and it’s fucking awesome.
no no, you’re right it totally is bullshit. i was being facetious. my bad. everything you said is how i feel, i don’t actually think “get in line slave” and the whole “yeah but did you post this from your iphone?” response is old.
i definitely don’t keep up with upgrades. i believe in squeezing every last drop out of tech until I absolutely need to upgrade. i absolutely reject the obsession with having the newest iphone or computer or synth even. of course i love seeing what is out there but i do not suffer from GAS (gear acquirement syndrome)
Everything started going to shit the moment geniuses at corporate boards decided that the only thing that mattered was more profit at all times, unlimited money for the shareholders (aka themselves and those who less need it) to be the benchmark of business success.
Long gone is the customer first approach where being a successful company meant creating amazing products that would make your customer’s life better for years to come and led to genuinely useful technical innovation.
The moment the definition and validation of success shifted to “how can we make more money than the previous quarter, every.single.quarter.forever?”, the flood gates were opened for bullshit posing as innovation to take over, manifesting itself in never ending updates or products that no-one needed and/or so-called “improvements” that advertising drilled into the masses’ brains as must-haves in your life, sometimes as stupid as “Now comes in Darkest Night Black or Suck-My-Dick Red! Only $999 (+tax)”.
In 2026, there is not even the pretense that the customer matters anymore.
Just churn totally buggy shitty product after shitty product, who cares, there’s a software update every five minutes, to make sure the trackers still work and they can harvest all the data they can from any of your device and usage, to make more money from advertising, constantly force-feed you ads to convince you to buy more shit so you can forget how miserable you are with every 5 minutes of dopamine generated from clicking the “add to cart” button.
One of the good things about being older at this point is that I can look back and remember that I lived through decades that were actually fun to experience. I’m afraid we are now in a godawful cycle that’s going to get way worse before it gets better. By then, I’ll probably be too old or too dead to care anymore. I feel sorry for the younger generations that are growing up in this misery and probably won’t know anything else for a couple decades.
We are in social decline. Past civilisations have collapsed when there are wide gaps between rich and poor. Consumerism and people obsessed with their image. Political Divergence and threat of nuclear war. Climate change. Natural resource exploitation. Health crises. These, and more, are telltale signs that what has happened to past civilisations will happen once again, soon.
