“All these smart appliances.
I dont see the use in these washers and refrigerators with touch screens and internet connectivity.
They have so many points of failure.
Just give me a bare-bones fridge that will last longer than me.”
As I was reading the responses, I found myself nodding in agreement a lot.
Here are some of the things people said were actually downgrades:
1.
“Touch screen buttons replacing physical buttons.
Especially in cars.”
u/snorens
2. u/TheBassMeister
3. u/CoolHandMike
4.
“The removal of disc drives in laptops.
u/Tranquilcobra
5.
“All these smart appliances.
I dont see the use of these washers and refrigerators with touch screens and internet connectivity.
They have so many points of failure.
Just give me a bare-bones fridge that will last longer than me.”
u/Novapunk8675309
6.
“Getting rid of headphone jacks on phones.
Getting rid of external SD cards on phones.
Getting rid of replaceable batteries on phones.
Smartphones used to be a lot better in so many ways.”
u/Outrageous_Tea_4597
7.
“Definitely streaming services.
We were all fooled by Netflix’s initial success.
But aside from those few years, it has ultimately become a huge loss for consumers.
Other companies wised up, and everyone and their mother were starting a streaming service.
Ads started appearing in paid plans, and now it’s pretty much just cable TV again.”
“In retrospect, rental stores were not that inconvenient.
They were everywhere, and they had almost anything.
u/PckMan
8.
“The use of QR codes at some restaurants instead of a physical menu.”
u/Moon_Jewel90
9.
“Smart TVs with the streaming services built in.
u/bbbbbthatsfivebees
10.
And major pizza chains especially never charged for delivery if you were in their catchment areas.
Now you should probably pay increasingly large delivery fees no matter the distance.”
u/Megamoss
11.
“Those tablets for leaving a tip that became popular post-COVID.
I can’t even buy a coffee without being requested to tip.”
u/Pulp_Ficti0n
12.
That used to be free.”
u/dishonoredfan69420
13.
Bring back the plug-in ones.
No batteries and they saved your phone when you dropped it.”
“Customer service and communication with companies and general.
Everything is now an app, a FAQ, or a robot.
And no one lists their phone number anymore.
Most large companies are impossible to contact.”
u/Funkytownn
15.
“iPhones getting rid of Touch ID.
It’s faster than Face ID.
“Pretty much every sale these days.
They jack the prices up and then discount to the same price they were before.”
u/bazang_
17.
“Netflix ditching the star rating for a simple thumb-up/thumb-down system.
I stumbled across so many awesome things to watch purely because the user rating was so high.”
u/TheCowardlyLion_
18.
“Open office plans.
You have no privacy.”
RonocNYC
19.
“Pensions to 401Ks are a big one.
Plus, its all based on stocks so it grows generally over time but not always.”
u/arthurdentxxxxii
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