Who else is annoyed by new technology?

Question

I mean like when you buy a computer soon after its obsolete and music first records witch i didn't have many that was mostly before my time then came cassettes witch is what i had a lot of then cds and so on then vhs then dvd then blue ray etc they just keep thinking up new ways to make you spend more money

Answer 1

I agree that it does get expensive. I don't worry about keeping up. I still have my vinyl records and cassettes but I love CDs. Haven't upgraded to blue-ray yet but I love DVDs. Still have a VCR to watch some of my old VHS tapes though. Computers seem to require a lot of attention in maintenance and upgrades. But the notebooks/laptops have come down quite a lot in price since they were first introduced.

Answer 2

The thing that annoys me most about new technology is size. It's getting too small. I have big fingers and buttons are just getting too hard to manipulate. There is a limit to miniaturization being advantageous.



As far as computers go; I am using an 8 year old computer and in no way is it obsolete. It has XP and in fact works better than the Vista computer that I bought a couple years ago. The whole upgrading Windows thing is more or less a money making scam by Microsoft. Just look at how well Windows Millennium went. Windows 98 was far better. It didn't crash every 10 minutes.



As for as recording technology; CDs are still by far the best media. Cassettes were never that good for sound quality. The digital only players, iPods etc, still do not have sound quality as good as CDs or well made LPs. The LP was a good technology and the "golden Ears" crowd of audiophiles will listen to nothing else. They use tube amps too. I have a lot of audio gear and very little of it is newer than 20 years old. In fact, the best of it is from the 1970 when companies like Marantz, Pioneer, Fisher, McIntosh, Dynaco were all vying with each other to produce the best equipment. The mainstream consumer audio products available today do no compare to the quality of that period. To be perfectly clear it is inferior. Speakers have not improved at all in the last 25 years with the possible exception of high end speakers and even that is only slightly. A pair of AR 18S speakers from 1980 sounds a lot better than 90% of all the little plastic boxes with so called subwoofers that they sell at Bestbuy.



I still have a VCR for recording but I like the immediate access of a DVD. As far as blue ray goes I don't know what all the fuss is about. The DVD format that came out - when was it? 20 years ago? - it doesn't seem like it needs improvement.



Something is only obsolete because you think it is or because the technology can no longer be supported like the analog TVs that now need a digital converter to receive signals or an 8 track player for which you can't get tapes.



In some ways you are right about "them" changing things to get you to spend money. It's that "keeping up to the Jonses" mentality that allows this happen. Just don't buy into it. Don't upgrade to Windows 7 if XP works fine for you. Don't get a Blue Ray if plain old DVDs are good enough. Change for the sake of change is never good. The Windows Millennium example is an excellent case in point.

Answer 3

I'm not particularly annoyed by new technology.



As a user of technology I decide when the technology is obsolete, not some marketer somewhere or some retailer or some inventor.



Last year I semi-retired an eight-year-old computer in favor of a new one that runs Windows 7. The older computer runs some programs W 7 can't run, so I still have a use for it and have no plans at this time to get rid of it. I more recently acquired a laptop that also runs Windows 7. I plan to make use of all three computers--in different ways.



My movies are nearing an even split between VHS and DVD, and I retain the technology to play VHS. I have no Blu-Ray movies yet, although my newer computers can play them. Most of the music I listen to is now on MP3 players, which I have recorded from CDs which remain in my possession.



By and large some of the newer technologies actually are superior. Some are not. I can choose which I prefer, and so can you.

Answer 4

Spending money is only really part of it, people make these things a lot of times to make peoples lives easier or more enjoyable, the thing behind the upgrades is that the newer versions of things generally get better. For instances cassettes could only hold 8-15 songs whereas say an Ipod can hold hundreds and hundreds meaning rather than carrying an entire shelf full of cassettes you just cut that down to something that can fit in your pocket.



Old dogs are never too old to learn new tricks in my books :) so enjoy the advances they make your life easier as they go.

Answer 5

Not Me! I don''t buy bleeding edge technology, but when new stuff that's significantly better has been around long enough for prices to drop, it's time to buy.



Just where would you freeze technology?



When I started studying engineering, we used slide rulers, freaking slide rulers. No thanks.



When I bought my first VCR in 1979 (mechanical tuner, not cable ready, one program start/stop) it was super in 1979. But it and three newer ones I bought over the next 25 year don't hold a candle to my old circa 2005 Series 2 Tivo (with lifetime service). No thanks to going back.



And the used computer I bought in 1980, complete with cassette deck for storing programs. Belongs in a museum. I'll stick with this old XP laptop until microsoft stops supporting XP. By then they will have most of the bugs out of Win 7.



The 1997 car I drive is far safer, more reliable, and gets twice the mileage of the first (used) car I bought in 1977. No thanks to going back to that POS either.



I watch an old tube TV that's updated with a digital converter box/analog Tivo, but when it dies of old age I won't have any problem adjusting a a new HDTV. Or maybe just buy a used tube TV for next to nothing.

Answer 6

Or when you bought a regular flashlight that consumes lot of battery then you find a cool LED flashlight that not only save power but do many things the regular doesn't, for example:

http://shop.raylight-group.com/

Answer 7

yea, technology is moving too fast for my pockets to keep up. a few years ago i learned something that really helps, there is no requirments to keep up with everyone, basically if it aint broke dont fix it, im thankful to have the "outdated" technology i do have.

Answer 8

I'm not annoyed with it, of course i love upgrades and updates .. but it always costs money. Even scripting (computer) is changing all the time, its annoying!

Answer 9

Yep. That's the way it goes. "Hurry up and buy this! Oh no, that thing you just bought is outdated now. You need to buy this." So on, and so forth.

Answer 10

Your blob of words doesn't make sense. And I disagree with what you are trying to say.

Answer 11

technology helps us for example putting periods between runon sentences n stuff you know what i mean