Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want

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• OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and large language models. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich.

  Even if stating the seemingly obvious, this article is a good read.

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  LOL they haven’t “forgotten”, they just don’t care.

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  • Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They also never knew. They went from being tech nerds dyring a timewhere tech was very expensive and limited to venture capitallists. These were never “normal” people.

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• irate944@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Juicero was one clear red flag of this

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero

  I imagine that the article mentions it

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At its most absurd nadir, one is reminded of Juicero, a company that sold a $400 juicer that did the same work as squeezing its proprietary juice packs with one’s bare hands.

    It does.

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• zebidiah@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Technology exists to serve us, we do not exist to serve technology. That is what silicon valley has fundamentally forgotten, but at the same time, the general population hasn’t exactly done itself any favors either…

  Silicon Valley effectively monetized fomo, instead of being afraid your attention might stray elsewhere they have convinced you not to pay attention to anything else for fear of missing out.

  When Twitter turned to shit EVERYONE should have fucking quit the same day, Facebook has its hooks so fucking deep in our lives that not having it is akin to not having a telephone number …

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  • B0rax@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same with new tech. Why do people buy new stuff every one or two years? Because fomo. You can not tell anyone that device that was good enough for you last year is now not fulfilling your needs anymore.

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• Juice@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Its easy to forget things you don’t give a fuck about

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• boatswain@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Subscription required :(

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  • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not for the archive link, immediately below the original Verge one. :-P

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• Micromot@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Interesting read

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• belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They never cared to begin with

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• inari@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ads, right?

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