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"Smart"phone update excitement: they're like bored children
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eti:

--- Quote from: ajb on September 27, 2020, 05:05:33 am ---This whole "CoNsUmErS aRe DuMb ShEeP wHoSe OpInIoNs ArE dUmB" schtick is stupid and tiresome.  Not everyone has the same interests or priorities as you do when it comes to consumer electronics or anything else and that doesn't make them wrong or dumb.  Get your head out of your ass and realize that the world doesn't revolve around you or what you in particular think is important in a consumer device.

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So they're not? They sure seem to behave like it if you take a look at the complete junk people allow themselves to be sold to them. Not necessarily always their fault, and marketeers are certainly to be held largely responsible, but I'd say the majority sit there in blissful ignorance and wouldn't even question whether a "5 star rating" was legitimately a fair and accurate product assessment, or just some characters on a website that were paid for by shovelling freebies in the direction of the person attributing the stars, in exchange for fake "reviews".

I can't fathom the mentality behind spending £3,000-£10,000 on a TV... ***A TV*** and on top of that, expecting it will only last 3-5 years before "a better one" is released, rinse and repeat. People ARE STUPID with great frequency, and the fact that you tried so mockingly and impotently to defend them, only serves to further prove the point I'd made. 

The western world has become increasingly a dumbed down society. Chinese companies laugh themselves all the way to the bank at all the billions of tons of cheap tat they churn out, that we fall over ourselves to consume and then pile into landfill on a daily basis.

Yeah, people ARE stupid when it comes to informed purchsses, but because they know no better due to the deceptive, crooked world we live in which worships money above EVERYTHING, above truth and morality and decency. No wonder people get taken for mugs.
iteratee:
Consumers are morons. Always blame the user. The user is the reason we can't have nice things. Take revenge by selling them garbage for profit and lulz.
eti:

--- Quote from: iteratee on September 27, 2020, 07:47:01 am ---Consumers are morons. Always blame the user. The user is the reason we can't have nice things. Take revenge by selling them garbage for profit and lulz.

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Since you and I are also consumers, do we fall under this too? I've had ny fair share of moron moments, LOL.
rdl:
I've never seen much point to smart phones. They're expensive toys requiring expensive data plans to be useful. All I need a phone for is to make and receive calls. I have an incredibly smart phone that I bought for $20 which meets that need for under $10 a month in fees.
PlainName:

--- Quote ---They're expensive toys requiring expensive data plans to be useful
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My phone is jolly useful for me, yet I rarely use any of the 'data plan' (it's PAYG, except I seem to hardly pay anything). Voice calls are even less: actually zero.

I would suggest that the extrapolation of your situation across the entire world is not necessarily a good fit.
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