ECHOES OF THE OUTDATED CONVENIENCE OR THE QUEST FOR THE PROPER ERGONOMICS

The time has come for another technology bombshell. You waited for it, didn’t you?

Looking at the atrocious [interfaces of modern applications] I don’t know when the idea of proper convenience has become obsolete.
Maybe around 2013 or so. The time period is debatable, but the main thing here is that we are distancing ourselves not only
from real engineering, but more scarily from common sense.
The topic affects not only software stuff but hardware products as well.

Do you know that some laptops in the early 90s had a handle for ergonomic transport? Where is that now?
And what about laptop LED indicators?
In the 90s they were designed as symbolic icons with colorful leds conveniently sitting on the keyboard plane.
And where are they now? They are just simple cheap LED dots on the side of the laptop case.
To see them, you have to curl up in a Z-shape to see the LED indication. What a load of #$#%!
Such disposition we can observe in premium segment.

Needless to say, big copros are notorious for spoiling products/technologies/whatever by quite a margin.
Take Samsung’s recent example, they are going to release a 200MP camera phone and decided
to use only 1/1.3" sensor for such a dense megapixel count.
Why not a 1.0" sensor when you are squeezing so MANY pixels into it?
Why be a cheapskate when you are doing a modern “premium” device?
Moreover, it seems that they are not aware of the basic optical principle that says:

More megapixels per specified area - more noise

On the other hand, Xiaomi is paving it’s own way.
Contrary to Samsung they have taken a 1.0" sensor, but spoil things by applying budget postprocessing to the images.
(at least it is not so horrible than previous ones, thanks for that!).

What’s the reason for this degradation, you might ask?
My draft guess is that it’s the joint collaborative work of dope-heads at the top management,
with a substantional amount of help from mama-boys in the marketing department.

Another modern phenomenon which i don’t understand for the very life of me
is the dumb replication of apple products, no matter how good they are.
What about big copros like dell or lenovo?
They don’t have the brains to pull out their head from the a## to do something cool without imitating of third parties?
Oh, God! They copy from a brand that has a measly 10% of the global market share, really?
Go figure.

On the bright side, we have the [Oppo Find X6 Pro] .
At least on paper it looks quite promising. We shall see how it turns out in a while.
If I have the time and inclination i’ll come up with another stupid cameraphone comparison.

Ok, I’m calling it a day.

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