• barsquid@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Anyone else remember when new technology used to be fun and exciting instead of miserable?

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      6 months ago

      Long gone are the days when I used be excited to read update notes for new features… Now I just hope they don’t god damn force an update on me.

    • spyd3r@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Somewhere along the line, maybe the early to mid 2000’s they stopped making products “for” the end-user and flipped it around so the end-user (their data) is now the product, and the customers are governments, corporations, and share holders.

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        6 months ago

        Because those shareholders (billionaires) and corporations drained the consumers of all of their money and now they’re the most profitable demographic to market to.

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      6 months ago

      Absolutely. Although, this is just making old technology worse because web 3.0 and AI aren’t performing to corpo expectations.