So, a hardware I've paid an arm and a leg for can be shutdown by the manufacturer. I think, we've give up too much power and become too tolerant of excessive overreach of these giants. I no longer look into future with optimism.
How would this be the dark age of tech? It's not like the actual Dark Ages, in which written records were few and far between, making it relatively difficult for historians to learn through historical texts.
No, instead we have hardware that will no longer work, and cannot be studied, because the auth servers have been shut down. We'll have software that cannot be downgraded and looked through, for our own safety. We'll have machines that will die, and cannot be repaired, because the replacement parts the OEM no longer manufactures or sells aren't matched to the device we want to revive.
Completely different! /s
They come up with some slick thing with an uncanny valley feel (Bixby, Knox, One UI) only to reinvent the wheel with it within two or three releases.
They rotated through three separate TV platforms between 2010 and 2015. The former of the two got shutdown ASAP after the transition.
There is no sense of consistency other than their corporate schizophrenia with their products.
Their home appliances are trash too
> They rotated through three separate TV platforms between 2010 and 2015. The former of the two got shutdown ASAP after the transition.
> There is no sense of consistency other than their corporate schizophrenia with their products.
It's fun how I feel like you're quite literally describing Google/Android as well.
Google's TV platforms are Chromecast, Nexus Q and Android TV (and don't get me started on Google TV).
Android added widgets and then largely forgot about it. Nowadays looks like it came back (partly thanks to Apple supporting it?)
Android added blur in Android 2. Removed it in Android 3. Added it in Android 11. Removed it Android 12.
Android added dynamic backgrounds in Android 2. Then largely recommended to stop using it. Then added as a beautiful new feature in Pixels.
On a more purely technical note, I have even a better one: Does Android's boot.img contain an initramfs? In Android 6 yes, in Android 7/8 it depends, in Android 9 no, in Android 10 yes, in Android 14 no.
And Google also like to remove user's data without much recourse.