The car dealership keeps models from fourteen years ago on sale, the bike store from thirty years ago yet the computer store cannot give me what they sold seven months ago.
If a car starts leaking carbon monoxide you can patch the pipe or buy a new one. If it breaks down there is a jack to raise it up. If a hinge smaller than your thumb snaps on an ultra thin notebook you are out of luck. No one has parts, no one makes them and there is not fix it kit.
New motor vehicle software includes luxuries such as heated seating, hands off phone calls, collision warning and programmable seat positions. New computer software includes the removal of the perfectly serviceable start menu with its list of all your programs in favour of Hulu ads.
Last month my flat screen phone died after not even a year of service, itself an insurance replacement from another failed "smart phone" that the original owner decided he did not want and sold me(I see why). My flip phone has lasted at least eight years with no signs of quitting but the company does not make them anymore?
It does not have all the "apps", fancy displays or touch screen but the flip phone is clearly the superior product. It loads faster in all activities not relating to the internet, including turning off and on, it has longer battery life, despite my tech telling me the battery is bad, it is easier to text on, is less likely to be irreparably damaged in an unfortunate impact and has already outlasted two "smart" phones. The sleek "notebook" seriesat least do not seem to be regressing in function but the latest desktop that comes with them, Windows 8, offers no immediate appeal over 7. What did seven have that XP did not in practice?
I do not see why they annually update the models but the changes are usually cosmetic and when they are not the value is usually obvious in automotive vehicles. More efficient fuel use, longer battery, smoother handling, more accident warnings, safer calls, better radios, ect. We once had to help people stranded near the airport because a rental car had no key fob and no one knew how to start it (much less why this perfectly serviceable function was removed) but this was just one model. Imagine if entire company fleets collectively said "to hell with car keys".
I can see the value of the touch screen on the DS, when I am playing games in ways I could not with prior input but when my only interest is calling and sending messages the touch screen proves to add nothing new to the experience and to be inferior to the keyboard. The windows new start menu changing the scrolling becauseof how it is activated is pointless enough but would forgettable if it actually had straight access to all programs, the control panel, files management and did not completely block out what you were previously doing. But, for gaining essentially nothing of value, the price of these things continue to skyrocket. Things not likely be in stock before a year's time is spent so how did we get here?
The car dealership keeps models from fourteen years ago on sale, the bike store from thirty years ago yet the computer store cannot give me what they sold seven months ago.
If a car starts leaking carbon monoxide you can patch the pipe or buy a new one. If it breaks down there is a jack to raise it up. If a hinge smaller than your thumb snaps on an ultra thin notebook you are out of luck. No one has parts, no one makes them and there is not fix it kit.
New motor vehicle software includes luxuries such as heated seating, hands off phone calls, collision warning and programmable seat positions. New computer software includes the removal of the perfectly serviceable start menu with its list of all your programs in favour of Hulu ads.
Last month my flat screen phone died after not even a year of service, itself an insurance replacement from another failed "smart phone" that the original owner decided he did not want and sold me(I see why). My flip phone has lasted at least eight years with no signs of quitting but the company does not make them anymore?
It does not have all the "apps", fancy displays or touch screen but the flip phone is clearly the superior product. It loads faster in all activities not relating to the internet, including turning off and on, it has longer battery life, despite my tech telling me the battery is bad, it is easier to text on, is less likely to be irreparably damaged in an unfortunate impact and has already outlasted two "smart" phones. The sleek "notebook" seriesat least do not seem to be regressing in function but the latest desktop that comes with them, Windows 8, offers no immediate appeal over 7. What did seven have that XP did not in practice?
I do not see why they annually update the models but the changes are usually cosmetic and when they are not the value is usually obvious in automotive vehicles. More efficient fuel use, longer battery, smoother handling, more accident warnings, safer calls, better radios, ect. We once had to help people stranded near the airport because a rental car had no key fob and no one knew how to start it (much less why this perfectly serviceable function was removed) but this was just one model. Imagine if entire company fleets collectively said "to hell with car keys".
I can see the value of the touch screen on the DS, when I am playing games in ways I could not with prior input but when my only interest is calling and sending messages the touch screen proves to add nothing new to the experience and to be inferior to the keyboard. The windows new start menu changing the scrolling because of how it is activated is pointless enough but would forgettable if it actually had straight access to all programs, the control panel, files management and did not completely block out what you were previously doing. But, for gaining essentially nothing of value, the price of these things continue to skyrocket. Things not likely be in stock before a year's time is spent so how did we get here?
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