I have long wanted to write a note about how I sometimes catch myself thinking about technology fatigue around. At the same time, we are not talking about the fact that I got bored with writing about 'pieces of iron' or studying all this, but about everyday life. If 7-8 years ago there was an incredible craving for flashing everything that can be charged, searching for new popular hardware for the test (and the search was certainly accompanied by the desire to buy, buy it all!) tablet and laptop, now it is not. You expect more and more stable performance and predictability from devices.
In fact, such thoughts came to my mind, probably from frequent testing and just studying different Chinese smartphones. I am sure that if I were 'sitting on devices' from Samsung, Sony, HTC and the like, then similar thoughts would hardly have visited me. But with the Chinese, everything is different. Smartphones from brands such as Xiaomi, Meizu, Oppo and OnePlus One are almost always good, and there are very few bugs in them. But if you look in the direction of various iOcean, Jiayu, UMI, THL and other brands of this kind, then everything is sad here. And now I'm not talking about special cases when you bought one device, for example, UMI Zero, and use it. In this situation, you are less likely to run into bugs, glitches and problems, because you have one device and, when you encounter a problem, you immediately solve it and forget about it. My situation is different – when I often change smartphones, I notice that such “Chinese” just have a lot of bugs and glitches. Unexpected reboots, case overheating, unstable firmware, program crashes and much, much more. Using such smartphones, sooner or later, you just want to take Nokia 105 for calls, and conduct all work and correspondence from your computer or laptop, without wasting your nerves fighting bugs and glitches. This is probably where this kind of fatigue comes from.
The second source is the over-complexity of some devices. Yes, an e-book with support for a player, browser and much more, necessarily based on Android – it's cool. This is what commercials and press releases say. But after a few very smart devices, buying books in online stores and then uploading them to the reader, you just want to take some 'nuok' or 'Kindle', link a bank card to it and read in one click, buying a book right here and now . At first, when using an e-book, there are no such thoughts, but after a couple of years I personally have them.
Another story is music. Now I listen to music on my smartphone and every now and then I have to delete something, and load something there, because 64 GB of a memory card is not enough for all the music, and predicting what I want to listen to tomorrow or in a week (when, suddenly, it will not be possible to download music from Google Play Music to a smartphone) – it fails. And here everything is complicated, unfortunately. A couple of years ago, it was easy to buy Apple a 160GB iPod Classic and fix memory issues. Yes, there was iTunes, which I hated, but you can survive. Now Classic is practically not sold, and all current players with a memory capacity of 128 GB or more are a couple of models.
Now about the clock. In order to keep up with the modern trends, I bought myself a Pebble Steel and a pedometer Xiaomi MIBand. As a result, the first was used only as a clock (it is inconvenient to read notifications from the screen), and the second was not at all. The difference between the readings of the MiBand and the Google Fit installed on the smartphone is minimal and personally I don't understand why wearing a bracelet if the smartphone also counts steps. Unless for notifications, yes, the benefits are obvious.
I would like electronic devices that work stably and one hundred percent fulfill the purpose for which they were created. Unfortunately, today this trend is completely out of trend and everything new is done mainly to amaze people, to get their attention, and then get their money. It remains to be believed that in the next 5-10 years, 'hardcore' electronic devices, created for something specific, will return to fashion. If this is a phone, then it will work for a week, does not reboot, does not require updates of 100,500 programs every two days. If it is an e-book, then the maximum with a dictionary function, simple, reliable, strong. If a clock is just a clock.