It feels like every few months there’s a new tech “revolution” being hyped up as the future. Besides AI, what’s the most overhyped trend in tech right now? For me, it’s the constant buzz around the metaverse.

  • Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
    42·
    1 month ago

    I think the phone industry is trying very hard to look interesting but it’s been a while since anybody cared? Or is it really just me?

    • pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
      20·
      1 month ago

      I feel the same. I think they got to a point where there’s nothing else left to improve, no interesting features to add.

      The only feature I am really looking forward to is the return of removable batteries.

      • Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        1 month ago

        Answering from my Fairphone 3 & its brand new battery 😎

        The improvement on cameras is nice though, but I think it’s been nice enough for anyone for a while and people are just comparing color balance now.

      • drawerair@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        18 days ago

        Phones are like 💻 now. The year-to-year improvements are tiny. Some factors related to this –

        At least for folks like me who sometimes read re chips, chip improvements are 👍. But big year-to-year improvements are probably hard. If it was easy, Apple or Qualcomm may have already made a chip that was 2 or 3 times faster than the old 1.

        So hard to have a clean implementation of under-screen cam and face recognition sensors. Hence, hole punch. Samsung fold has an under-screen front cam but the implemention wasn’t clean and the pic quality is below average.

        So hard to make a 🔋 that’s 2 or 3 times better than the old 🔋. The tech world has been so hungry for a 🔋 innovation for a long time. There was optimism re graphene. Idk if it’ll succeed in mass production.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      12·
      1 month ago

      It’s more jjust a lackof reporting. If Apple came out with something new people would lose their minds. But if some no name Chinese company does it, no one cares.