So one of the main things that this blog is about is "quality." And what happened to quality? And why don't they make things the way they used to... like they did before I was born? And how come it's impossible to get a pair of nail clippers that just cuts the nail all the way across cleanly?
But I digress.
What bugs me? Awful, crappy tablets. Tablets that probably look awesome on the store shelf of Walmart to someone who has heard about the iPad (but has actually never tried one, and, let's face it, really knows nothing about them) and wow! Hey! That's just like an iPad! And holy shit, it's only $150! Ima get me somma that action.
I tried one of those once. A friend of my wife's bought one. She was asking me for help trying to figure out some subltle nuance of the interface. Oh, wait, I remember: she couldn't figure out how to turn it off. Yes, how to turn it off.
Did I figure out how to do it? I think so. But the thing is, I've kind of blocked the whole thing out of my memory. Trying to use that thing was that traumatically appalling. Did I try any of the "apps?" No, not really. My philosophy is that if you haven't nailed how to intuitively turn something off, it's all down hill from there. Anyway, it was a disaster. It looked like it was running Android because it had the basic Android branding. But it really could have been some kind of Chinese Android ripoff, because even though the near-unanimous consensus is that Android is less polished than iOS, I find it hard to believe that Android is that bad.
But either way, she bought that tablet. She was even kind of happy about it for reasons I didn't get the opportunity to scrutinize. Which leads me to today's hypothesis: Cheap is more important to most people than quality.
Truth be told, that's what really bugs me.
That, and those goddamn kids always playing on my front lawn.