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| Allied Nations |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
I don't understand the need for all of this senseless "Small Ipod/New Ipod/Shuffle/Nano/Cellphone with ing everything" gadget-whoring in the last year or two. It's a bunch of stuff that people don't need (seriously, you can do just fine with an original Ipod, and it even shuffles!) yet continue to shell out ridiculous amounts of money for even after they purchased the original product.
A cellphone is a cellphone. Do you really need to watch TV everywhere you go? Do you need a phone that's paper-thin and will break in less than two weeks, causing you to purchase the same phone again and repeat the process?
ing society pisses me off.
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Isn't this progress? |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by Allied Nations
Isn't this progress? |
Explain. Or were you being sarcastic? :p |
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| iammesol |
| I've joked about this since Gamecube started using smaller discs. If they keep this up, eventually you'll end up breaking/losing more things than actually using them. |
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| Allied Nations |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
Explain. Or were you being sarcastic? :p |
I'm serious. Isn't them making things smaller and progressing technology, intergrating devices and such progress? |
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| Sunsnail |
| quote: | Originally posted by Allied Nations
I'm serious. Isn't them making things smaller and progressing technology, intergrating devices and such progress? |
yes. i cant wait for nanoiBots |
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| Xenocreator_PG_ |
yes yes & nanoiboots!!
...and nanoiboats |
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| Sunsnail |
| im tired of all these motha in ipods on my motha in screen |
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| Aquarian |
| quote: | Originally posted by Allied Nations
Isn't this progress? |
In some cases yes (like hardware getting smaller and more efficient)
But then it's also creating needs. Some people should have cell phones. They have genuine need for one. But when I hear a 12 year old on the bus calling his mom just to know what's for supper, I find it hard to think of it as progress. |
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| Sunsnail |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aquarian
In some cases yes (like hardware getting smaller and more efficient)
But then it's also creating needs. Some people should have cell phones. They have genuine need for one. But when I hear a 12 year old on the bus calling his mom just to know what's for supper, I find it hard to think of it as progress. |
Why? |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by Allied Nations
I'm serious. Isn't them making things smaller and progressing technology, intergrating devices and such progress? |
Oh, of course. However, where do we draw the line at what's progress and what's excessive? I think that the technology would serve a better purpose if it was actually put to an important, helpful use as opposed to furthering our dependance on TV and other forms of mass-marketed-entertainment. |
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| jdat |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
I don't understand the need for all of this senseless "Small Ipod/New Ipod/Shuffle/Nano/Cellphone with ing everything" gadget-whoring in the last year or two. It's a bunch of stuff that people don't need (seriously, you can do just fine with an original Ipod, and it even shuffles!) yet continue to shell out ridiculous amounts of money for even after they purchased the original product.
A cellphone is a cellphone. Do you really need to watch TV everywhere you go? Do you need a phone that's paper-thin and will break in less than two weeks, causing you to purchase the same phone again and repeat the process?
ing society pisses me off.
/rant |
The issue is not society, as a matter of fact most people will despise the excessive amounts of things which can be done on new electronic devices as they are not able to fully understand them.
This paradigm is called feature overload and while the problem isn't entirely new, the spread of this has become common place for everyone only very recently.
The primary causes are:
- Saturated market which needs to be replenished so the manufacturers need tactics to reel the customers back in.
- Reduction in size and increase of features on chips used to design products ( if it costs 50 cents more for 10 functions more it's a no brainer for an engineer )
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| Allied Nations |
| That use of bullet points turns me on Jdat... |
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