10 years isn’t a bad run, but it still proves the point that anything which needs an app or connected web service to function will inevitably become e-waste, and maybe sooner than you’d like.
Earlier today, I was looking at reviews of portable Bluetooth speakers. One had a bullet point “No equalizer app, with only basic EQ functions available by controls on the device itself.”
The review intended that to be a negative, but I was like “Hell yeah that’s what I want!”
Functionality in pure hardware means it will keep on working as long as the hardware works. It means that I myself get to be the one who decides when I need an upgrade, not when the company forces my hand.
Every single tech purchasing decision I make these days, having freedom from apps, cloud, or any other ticking time bomb is top of my feature list.
Gonna be a pity not having 32 bands of eq on that puppy though…
Also when a new version of the speaker comes out you probably won’t even find out about it for like a month since you won’t be getting a push notification about it while you’re driving.
10 years isn’t a bad run, but it still proves the point that anything which needs an app or connected web service to function will inevitably become e-waste, and maybe sooner than you’d like.
Earlier today, I was looking at reviews of portable Bluetooth speakers. One had a bullet point “No equalizer app, with only basic EQ functions available by controls on the device itself.”
The review intended that to be a negative, but I was like “Hell yeah that’s what I want!”
Functionality in pure hardware means it will keep on working as long as the hardware works. It means that I myself get to be the one who decides when I need an upgrade, not when the company forces my hand.
Every single tech purchasing decision I make these days, having freedom from apps, cloud, or any other ticking time bomb is top of my feature list.
Gonna be a pity not having 32 bands of eq on that puppy though… Also when a new version of the speaker comes out you probably won’t even find out about it for like a month since you won’t be getting a push notification about it while you’re driving.
Oh no!
…well anyway :)