I imagine it’s paying a premium for issue
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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It's not care. Its want. We don't want AI.
FR I think more people actively dislike it, which is a form of care.
Do they care? No! Will they push more AI? Yes! Will they listen to the consumers? I don't think so.
Same thing happens with lot of products over the years. Companies push new stuff that we don't want, and a year later becomes a regular thing! They push AI day by day, from websites AI chat help to in app AI assistant. Do consumers like it? No, but still you gonna find it everywhere! and now they push it in computers and looks what it happens! No sales!
Call me crazy, but at some point, they need to look at their data or their consumers and do the right thing.
It's maddening that they did actually take away the headphone jack from all modern phones and there's nothing we can do about it even though it objectively sucks
most, Sony still has them
But there's no space on the new thin phones.
STFU yes there is. Gimme my 3.5mm.
"The perfect size of the screen is ((3.5 + (year - 2010) * 0.5)) inches."
STFU. Make phones small like iPhone 4 again.
there’s nothing we can do about it
Outright rejection of their shit, I won't buy new smartphones from them. Currently using a dumbphone although the case is breaking and they don't make this one any more. Nokia could work but costs quite a bit tbh. Getting rid of the phone entirely is tempting.
If I ever buy a smartphone again it will be the cheapest second hand thing I can find. Maybe don't even take it out the house, it can stay at home like a landline and will be restricted to at most LAN connections only.
Some more news had the best take on this imo. It's clear: these companies spent the last five+ years pouring billions into AI. And right now, AI isn't up to snuff, it can't do everything that was promised, so now these companies are seeking a return on their investment.
Unfortunately for us, these companies are brands like google, apple, and Microsoft which means that their solution to AI not being a sellable product on its own is that they can shove it into everything they produce without asking the consumer. They now have to figure out how to make money off of it, which is difficult because AI doesn't do anything supremely useful right now. It's writing is passable but amateurish, it's law work has too many flaws for it to replace anyone, it's art skills are 100% clockable and nobody likes them, and it's ability to serve better ads is unproven so far. So we get shit like AI powered laptops that don't sell.
Microsoft pushing a feature that most users will never use or care about? Never!
Laughs in Window 8 optimized for touchscreens
It's because they're looking at data and a lot of you forget that. They don't care if realistically everyone hates it if the data says everyone would use and benefit from it. Why is this so much more important? If you looked at the marketing behind AI they faked this entire industry by showing companies the "right" data to have them back them up but it's just manipulation from the industry to make something profitable like NFTs.
AI on phones peaked with MS Contana on W10 mobile circa 2014. "Remind me to jack off when I'm home". And it fucking did what i wanted. I didn't even have to say words, i could type it into a text box... it also worked offline.
Bad news for people who use google: they've removed the same feature, so their assistant is more useless than Cortana a decade ago (only a mild exaggeration)
Seriously missed an opportunity to being that back as their agent.
Legitimately though, Cortana was pretty great. There was a feature to help plan commutes (before I went more or less full remote), all it really did was watch traffic and adjust a suggest time to depart but it was pretty nice.
Say it every time someone mentions WP7/8/10, those lumia devices were fantastic and I totally miss mine, the 1020 had a fantastic camera on it, especially for the early 2010s
I loved my Lumia. I have the windows phone launcher on my phone currently haha
Imagine that, a new fledgingly technology hamfistedly inserted into every part of the user experience, while offering meager functionality in exchange for the most aggressive data privacy invasion ever attempted on this scale, and no one likes it.
If I want at AI I have a multitude of options. It's baked into my editors and easily available on the web. I just paste some crap into a text box and we're off to the races.
I don't want it in my OS. I don't want it embedded in my phone. I'll keep disabling it as long as that is an option.
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