I'm looking at new Android phones since the battery life on my 5-year-old phone is getting quite dismal and it seems to have a lot of issues running out of RAM lately.
There just don't seem to be very many phones with two sim slots AND a dedicated sd card slot these days. I need all of them since I have one sim for talking and texting and a separate limitless mobile broadband sim that can't make phone calls as well as a chunky SD card that I use for photos, video, media, game roms, etc. Unfortunately most lower-to-mid-range phones just have a hybrid slot at best (while high-end phones seem to have eliminated expandable storage completely.)
Basically, I'd have to ditch the internet, having extra storage or the phone's actual function as a fucking phone. The phones I found that do have the slots I need meanwhile somehow have worse specs than my current phone from 5 years ago
I guess I could always just carry two phones with me
Added complexity is a negative to most people. They don't want it, they want something "That just works (TM)". The ideal tech product is the Rabbit AI pin that doesn't burn a hole in your chest and there's a liberal version that doesn't use racial slurs for consumer choice
It's the worst tech trend ever, and it's not relegated to classical IT products. I'll freely admit to not knowing how to fix a car other than change headlight or whatever but how many people don't even know if their car is front or rear drive, a thing that very much matters for how to handle certain situations? Apps for household appliances that, on the consumer side, do nothing but offload very easily attainable knowledge of "don't boil wool" into the app?
We're getting the cyberpunk future without cyberdecks
My father instilled in me the wisdom of "If you own a machine, you should know how to maintain it". Though that advice is more relevant in the global south than the north.
I remember replacing a carberator with my dad on our car as a kid and those 2 weeks were the most fun I ever had with him.