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.

  • @webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    69•2 months ago

    I feel like both new cars and phones have been overhyped for a while now.

    Ai is simultaneously over and under hyped depending on context.

    • @Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
      42•2 months 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•2 months 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•2 months 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•1 month 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 DotEnglish
        -1•2 months 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.