Tech companies are clamoring to re-buttonize their products
It isn’t that you don’t “get” tech, it’s that the tech you use every day is no longer built for you, and as a result feels a very specific kind of insane.
Edward Zitron • Never Forgive Them
The vision was always just out of reach, because the tech was just out of reach.
Yet today, Apple is selling a technically flawless pen computing system in the Pencil and the iPad, and no-one cares.
Benedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 546
Plotnick: There was this kind of touchscreen mania, where all of a sudden everything became a touchscreen. Your car was a touchscreen, your refrigerator was a touchscreen. Over time, people became somewhat fatigued with that. That’s not to say touchscreens aren’t a really useful interface, I think they are. But on the other hand, people seem to hav... See more