> Analysts have also said that the rise of artificial intelligence may have delayed purchases as some higher-income shoppers await upgraded laptops with AI features, such as Microsoft's co-pilot button, and televisions to hit the shelves.
Wait what?, does anyone here know someone who's truly waiting out for any of these features?
One of the problems with electronics has been that there has not been a lot of value add in a lot of categories for a while, and in some cases, there has been value erosion. I bought an LG OLED TV in 2017. Since then, a similarly sized TV costs 50% more and is still more expensive to buy in a sale. (I bought mine in a sale) Meanwhile, there has been not a lot of value add to the TVs in terms of hardware. And whatever software features are being advertised, are in fact the reason why I refuse to replace mine. Mostly because the more poorly written software they add to the TV, the more enshittification of the viewer experience happens.
There's a few things that caught my attention. I am too in tech, but from what I understand and my circle, everyone... kinda worked less during the pandemic (especially at the start). How was this person pressured to work so much? He was doing machine learning for a company that offers clothes. How can you derive actual societal value from that? Not saying that the work was not interesting or challenging, just a bit weird take.
He also says he has 3 hobbies, and when the pandemic hit... it burst his bubble? I mean how many hobbies are you supposed to have? I'm not going to have 10 different hobbies to have "resiliency" in my hobbies shall a pandemic arrive.
Also, glaring omission on not sharing the reason how it happened? Everyone here works on a keyboard 8+ hours a day... maybe share what some of us could avoid?
I know quite a few people who worked very long hours during the pandemic. All the other things they normally did with their time went away and they just defaulted to spending more time on work.
Is it the vector space of two words being approximate to one another?