Cool. You've just described literally ever piece of consumer electronics on the market currently. What do you propose the consumer do? I guess I shouldn't expect my car to work? My TV? Games console? My home security camera? Lightbulbs?
I should expect none of this to work for me?
What a truly absurd comment. No we should very much expect them to work the way we expect them to, and then rally together to hold vendors accountable when they don't.
> The premise of a device having "one job" again is the position of a luddite.
No, it's the position of being anti-enshitification.
A refrigerator's main function is to keep food cold. That's the reason you buy a refrigerator. If putting a screen on a TV actually had a demonstrable benefit to that purpose then fine; but it doesn't. It actually has no objective benefit whatsoever, and the increased complexity not only increases cost but also reduces reliability. That's literally the definition of enshitific
Don't but anything with a screen that doesn't need it.
I’m waiting for the day when they forget to renew a domain and porn ads start showing up.
If you're buying a online computer you can't control what is installed on it, you should expect it to not work for you.
Cool. You've just described literally ever piece of consumer electronics on the market currently. What do you propose the consumer do? I guess I shouldn't expect my car to work? My TV? Games console? My home security camera? Lightbulbs?
I should expect none of this to work for me?
What a truly absurd comment. No we should very much expect them to work the way we expect them to, and then rally together to hold vendors accountable when they don't.
Your view is defeatist and doesn't help anyone.
> The premise of a device having "one job" again is the position of a luddite.
No, it's the position of being anti-enshitification.
A refrigerator's main function is to keep food cold. That's the reason you buy a refrigerator. If putting a screen on a TV actually had a demonstrable benefit to that purpose then fine; but it doesn't. It actually has no objective benefit whatsoever, and the increased complexity not only increases cost but also reduces reliability. That's literally the definition of enshitific