u/overlord-07

miss when android phones actually felt different from each other

back then samsung, htc, sony, lg all had their own weird ui styles, sounds, features and overall vibe

now every android phone slowly feels like the same google themed software with slightly different icons and camera apps on top

feels like android used to be a operating system brands customized and now it’s slowly turning into google’s ecosystem first and android second

noticed this the other day i probably havent spent one completely offline day in a really long time

even if i stop using social media there’s still youtube, spotify, or random apps to manage my daily schedule

and i think this is normal for most people now

last time i was properly offline was probably like 6 months ago when i went camping with friends and had almost no signal the whole trip

kinda weird thinking about it now because outside of that i’m basically connected to the internet every single day without even noticing it anymore

i always find it weird how people buy new flagships every single year just to mostly use instagram, whatsapp, youtube and basic apps

these phones can edit videos, run heavy games, do insane multitasking and a million other things but most people barely use even 10% of that power

then next year same mobile has a new flagship with minor upgrades and a new camera layout and they will upgrade it without any though

sometimes i genuinely cant tell if people actually need these phones or if buying expensive phones every year just became a flex/trend now

every company suddenly wants ai inside their product now even when it makes absolutely no sense

photo apps, mails, note apps, browsers, search bars, fridges, literally everything is getting some random ai feature added in it for no reason

and half the time it feels like companies are adding ai just because investors and marketing teams expect it now, which is why so many features end up feeling pointless like ai summaries for 2 line emails or random assistants inside apps nobody even wanted one in the first place

feels like companies are scared of looking outdated now so they just keep shoving ai into everything first and figuring out the actual use later even though this makes the product worse in my opinion

movies always show tech people in the weirdest ways possible

either they’re typing at light speed breaking into government systems in 30 seconds or they’re the most socially awkward human alive who cant even explain how wifi works normally

and somehow every hacker scene still has green text flying everywhere while someone yells “i’m in”

what are some other random stereotypes made by movies about tech in movies which you find weird

was checking my bank statement and realised i’m paying monthly for so many random digital things now without even thinking about it anymore

music app, cloud storage, ai app, vpn, game pass, youtube premium and probably some other subscription i forgot exists

individually non of them is expensive but if you forgot them they keep on stacking in the background it could become very expensive while you never used half of these subscriptions.

anyone else also have this problem ?

feel like rgb looked way cooler when it was mostly just keyboards and pcs

now every gaming product has rgb slapped onto it by default

headphones glowing, speakers glowing, desks glowing, microphones glowing, even routers looking like alien spaceships now for no reason

sometimes clean setups with almost no lights honestly look way better to me now

what side are people on with rgb stuff these days

remember when people used to have entire home theatre setups with giant speakers and huge subwoofers shaking the room

now almost everyone just has one bluetooth speaker sitting somewhere in the house doing everything

and the funny part is most people genuinely dont care anymore because modern bluetooth speakers sound good enough now without all the wires and setup headache

feels like convenience completely won over proper home audio for normal people

friend bought a smart camera for his house and later realised the thing doesnt even save recordings properly unless you buy their monthly plan

so without paying extra the camera basically just watches things happen and forgets everything after

companies really found a way to put subscriptions on the most basic stuff now

i dont know about most people but i have noticed almost every house has one junk drawer filled with random old electronics, tools, batteries, old phones, cables, chargers and other random stuff

all kept in the hope that one random day it might become useful again

and for some reason even if half of it is junk or you dont even know what some cables belong to anymore, nobody throws it away

even though realistically most of that stuff is probably never getting used again

Streaming used to be the thing that finally made people stop pirating stuff because it was just easier

Now one show is on netflix, another on disney, another on hbo, another on some random platform nobody even remembers paying for

And even after paying you still get ads, missing movies, not available in your region and non of the platforms have old shows which are less popular and worth the effort to get a streaming license 

At some point people are obviously gonna go back to piracy again because somehow the illegal option slowly became less annoying than the legal one.

old gadgets just felt more satisfying to use because you could actually hear things happening inside them

pressing buttons on old stereos, closing a cassette player, camera shutter sounds, even dvd drives making all those weird noises before reading the disc

half the experience was the physical feedback and sounds those devices made while working

now everything is just smooth glass screens with tiny vibration motors trying to fake the same feeling again

opened an old cassette player recently and the inside looked absurd compared to modern gadgets

tiny gears everywhere, springs, belts, moving parts all packed together just to do one simple thing

now most modern devices are just one battery glued to a board with almost everything hidden under black plastic

half the fun was hearing all the little clicks, spins and moving parts inside while it worked