I got an old-ish Samsung tablet for a bit over a hundred bucks on ebay, and I'm kinda blown away by how good it is for basic stuff. The screen is nice, it's super light, it plays video and browses the internet with no issues.Especially now that pixel density is high enough that you basically don't notice it, I feel like there's barely any reason to want more advanced tech for like 90% of consumer applications. If it wasn't for the battery going bad I'd probably be fine with this thing until the day I die. My laptop is about as old and it works perfectly fine too. The only thing I feel a need to upgrade is my desktop, but that's just a hobbyist thing. What are consumer tech companies supposed to do when there's basically no reason to upgrade anymore? Make it even harder to replace batteries?
>>109600862>What are consumer tech companies supposed to do when there's basically no reason to upgrade anymore? Make it even harder to replace batteries?They're going to go the Apple route and lock down the bootloader and then ramp up the system requirements for the next version of their OS and then your system is slowly bricked unless you have the new one.
>>109600862>What are consumer tech companies supposed to do when there's basically no reason to upgrade anymoreThings keep evolving.For laptops: most can't even run small AI models locally, so there's the reason to uograde. Same thing for tablets. I guess phones as well.The Screen tech peaked 10 years ago, I don't see how it will evolve anymore. I only see myself buying a new TV if 8K ever happens, and it won't. 4K is only good for sports, but we still have NFL in 1080i or 720p. Maybe they try to push AI to TVs, but I don't see it. I have 20 year old LCD tvs as good as new. Going back to Tablets, maybe they develop some HUGE ones, I'd buy 15 inch tablet.
>>109601329MicroLED will be the next big thing in the screen department.Everything else now only requires code optimization. I unironically require only an intel i5 gen 4 and a GTX 750 Ti for the games I tend to play, and an i7 7700k with a GTX 1080 Ti and 32Gigs is plenty enough for max settings at a smooth vsync 120fps in properly coded games, like Portal 2.The only thing forward is making things consume less power, any other advancement is just copium for slopdevs.
>>109600862yeah I got an iPad and I kind of don't need a Thinkpad anymore if I can just voice dictate what I need to AI.
>>109601322Yeah, I specifically searched for a tablet with an openable bootloader because of this. When you can't improve the tech, just essentially brick the system, I guess>>109601329Is there really much value for the average user to be able to run local AI models on all your devices? I'm all for having stuff local instead of the cloud, but that's why I have a desktop/workstation. It really doesn't seem like something the average consumer would care about.
>>109601680>Is there really much value for the average user to be able to run local AI models on all your devices? I'm all for having stuff local instead of the cloud, but that's why I have a desktop/workstation. It really doesn't seem like something the average consumer would care aboutMaybe not now that they are not charging full price for AI.Once they start charging the full price and people can't pay, they'll settle for a small offline model.
>>109600862one area that is continously improving is DRM. They need new devices if the onboard keys leak. Otherwise, no HQ netflix for you, normie
