All right, Alex, what's the greatest disappointment of the last 10 years in tech?
In my opinion, it is virtual reality. I just looked it up, actually.
Oculus Rift came out on August 1st, 2012, and it's basically not improved since then.
Like, there's slightly higher resolutions, but after that first, like, well, like,
three years, would you say? Everyone was super hyped. There were games coming out,
and it was getting implemented into different things. And now just nothing happens. It's so
disappointing because, like, I have a VR headset. You can use it for, like, two or three hours,
and then you kind of had the experience. It's so immersive that you should be able to just
do incredible things in it, but it kind of ends up just being a really lonely experience,
where you're just kind of in your room being like...
Ain't that fact, though. Yeah, and then, like, you throw up when something, like, the framerate drops. It's terrible.
You don't think the metaverse or anything is gonna affect it at all?
Good God, I think the metaverse is one of the stupidest ideas in many, many years.
It's just, like, VRChat already exists, and, like, VRChat has its place, and people can go on there.
But also, like, in a lot of ways, it's one of the worst things on the internet. So
Zuckerberg is just trying to take, like, what is already just a really strange spot and move
into business. I don't think it's gonna work. I'm sad. VR's cool and boring.
I'm gonna go ahead and say Ethereum. I still think it's a good product. I believe in the project.
I think all the people who kind of have these
utopian dreams of what crypto could be, I think Ethereum is probably the project that's gonna
deliver them. The thing that's disappointing is the timeline. They keep, they just today, I think,
said on Twitter that it's gonna be delayed another three months.
June was already delayed forever. Now it's gonna be, like, Q3. It just sucks.
And it has real implications because a lot of the NFT stuff, which I don't do, but many people do,
happens on Ethereum and it's really bad for the environment. So Ethereum switching from
proof of work to proof of stake, thereby not making so many greenhouse gases,
was gonna be a big deal and have a big impact and make, and probably would have affected the
adoption of NFTs because you would no longer have that they're so bad for the environment argument.
So it just sucks that they're taking so long, but, you know, it's kind of like a Blizzard game.
It's like, it'll be ready when it's ready and hopefully they're working on it because it's
going to be awesome like Diablo II, not like Diablo III. And the longer they take, the greater
the risk there is that another blockchain like Solana or something will take its place. And
that's a huge risk to investors. A lot of these investors are like institutional at this point
as well. Gas prices are just so high and they happen for so long that it's really an existential
risk to the whole project. It would just be a pity if the developers didn't get it together in time
and they lost that user base that will move to another project. And once they have momentum,
it's hard to switch, right? Like, why do we all use Instagram and Facebook? It's because we all
use Instagram and Facebook, even if Google Plus was better in some ways, right? But
there's network effects. Anyways, I hope they figured out. Oh, the studio display, the Apple
Studio display. I saw Anthony like open it and tug on the cord and I saw Linus get really angry
and I saw how it works fine, but it's not great. And then the Samsung one came out and it can do
like way more. First off, uh, you're wrong. But, uh, I just tried the Samsung webcam, worst webcam.
Yeah, isn't it like 1080p? It's like that's what you need. I did not look like that in Zoom.
And the frame rate was horrible. Maybe you have a bad internet connection. Oh,
it's true that Ethernet is not working on the Mac Studio right now for some reason.
Well, there you go. But people use Wi-Fi. Yeah. Still, like a 5k screen is really nice.
Sure, a 5k screen, but it's got a processor in it and it doesn't do anything. It's just a screen.
The biggest disappointment of the last 10 years. Yeah, and you can't change the power cord. It's
just there and you can't use it like in any other location other than close to a power source.
Don't forget the price. And the price. Listen. And you can't adjust it. The stands,
you have to pay $400 if you want it to go up. Like, well, you can get a face amount and then
it's only like $100. Where any other monitor would just come with it? Listen, the Apple Studio
display is disappointing. Yes. But my biggest disappointment is not the Apple Studio display.
It's the iOS 7 redesign. Yes. That's fair. I hate flat design. So I guess for everybody on
Flowplain, if they don't remember, like what happened in the iOS 7? Basically, they took iOS
and they took a big eraser and then let some children use InDesign. Wow. And the children were
like bright colors. Whoa. Let's make a gradient. I never, you can make a gradient. There's some
strong opinions. It's flat design is the worst thing happened to software. I can see that.
Probably the essential phone. Essential phone. I bought an essential phone really early because
I love the ceramic, the heaviness, the squareness, the notch was new, foreign, exotic, beautiful.
They never use the Pogo pins for other than the bad 360 camera and then they abandoned it and
died. Biggest disappointment. What's a good experience like at least using it or? Oh yeah.
Think of the phone itself. I would buy one today if I could because it's just like beautiful, heavy.
Like the UI was super simple back in the day for like just base Android. But it's old. The camera
was bad then so it's horrendous now. Just get an iPhone. Fair enough. Yeah. Aren't they making
a comeback or something like that? No. They tried. They teased a bar phone. So it was like a candy
bar phone. They were seeing renders of and then that died and they went under.
But I think the essential brand is still kicking around. They're doing something.
Like I think it's a software or something. Bring it back. Hashtag bring back essential.
Okay. So the 3DS. You know the toggleable 3D mode? Oh my goodness. It will hurt your brain if you
turn it on. It is by far the worst thing ever and I was so hyped for it. Like the Mario coin game.
Did you ever play it? I didn't have a 3DS but I played on a couple of my friends and it was
terrible. Yeah. It's just awful. That's definitely the biggest disappointment. I would say so far
the continual rejection of no USB-C on an iPhone would be number one as I'm stirring into one right
now. It'd be so nice to use everything that's going on right here. The moment mount, plugging in,
everything. And I think that's really sucks because I am one of those people who get
razed on every day for being a green bubble boy. And I kind of hate it but it's just like it's
whatever right now. But at the same time, I kind of wish I could join in on it. The second thing
I think was a huge disappointment was the fact that nothing came out from the Dyson car project.
This one is very niche. No one really knows unless you do know about this. What was the Dyson car
project? So the Dyson car project was that Sir James Dyson was thinking, oh, you know what?
We need to rethink what goes into a car. And he said that Dyson was going to build an EV.
This would have been insane because the torque alone from the motors in the hair dryer, all of
the air wraps, the vacuums, everything so far Dyson has made, even like the air sonics you put
your hands in at the mall, the motors themselves would give up so much torque that they could have
provided even just the motors themselves to brands like Honda in GM with their partnership.
They didn't have to make the car entirely. I mean, like for instance, Sony's car is going to be
partnered with Honda now, but now Honda's partnered with GM. So then I guess the Sony car is now GM.
So at the end of the day, it's just like, they had everything right there. They even had a
concept and then stuff like, for instance, not having wiper blades, the EV6, the Ioniq 5,
the Nukia Niro, the BZ4X, the Sotera, they don't have rear wiper blades, but they could have used
the tech from the Dyson project, which used their hand dryer tech. So it blows it right up and over
with minimal power draw because it's Dyson and good results. Even that alone, just in the spoiler,
would have been sweet, but unfortunately, none of that was partnered or pushed out or anything.
It just died. And I think that is the biggest disappointment because we could have had so
many more innovations in the car world so far. Hey, remember when Blackberry tried to make a
comeback? Yeah. Okay, remember how bad it was? Oh, yeah. Okay, so they had those weird phones that
slid and then they had that tablet and virtually all of them got returned to the best buy I worked
out. And then on Boxing Day, they tried to give them away for basically nothing. Hey, Johnny,
you remember the Blackberry tablet? Oh, that thing's terrible. Yeah, remember that thing? It was
terrible. I don't even remember what it was called, the play something, play one, something? I don't
know. Anyway, that was terrible. And then the worst part is that now Blackberry develops the
operating system for like Fords. So like, yeah, if you want to get really excited about like,
like an infotainment system, don't don't buy a Ford when parents ate it. So but anyway, yeah,
all those phones, especially that square one, they made a phone that was like a big square.
It had like a like a fixed keyboard, just like an old Blackberry on it. It was terrible and ran
Android. You think they'll ever make a comeback in hardware or? I hope not. I hope they're just
a software company. Remember VBM though, that was tight. Definitely the newest generation of consoles.
I'm not going to include like Nintendo on it because Nintendo's kind of been on their own schedule since like the Wii U where they're just like, let's just drop this weird Fisher Price
toy controller. And I'm a proud Wii U owner. Thank you. So I can say that, just dozens of us.
But like this most recent console generation has been so slow to roll out. And that's just been
it's been painful because one of the most exciting things that they were touting was these like
incredible hardware increases and the like that we were supposed to expect these massive graphical
improvements. And then everything's still targeting prior consoles, which is like, yeah, okay, that's
that's good for people that don't want to buy the new consoles. And like it's also kind of partly
due to the pandemic that this whole thing was such a slow roll out because there was stock issues
with so many things. But like outside of like Ratchet and Clank and maybe the Demon's Souls
remake, there's just been nothing that has seemed remotely impressive from a technical standpoint.
And whereas it used to be like every single time there was a new console, it was like mind
blowing. Like I remember seeing like Motor Storm on PS3 and just being like blown away by that.
And then I just every single time I look at new console stuff, it's like whatever, like even
like a new God of War Ragnarok that's still gonna target the PS4. Why?
Battlefield 2042. Yeah, kill it dead. I'm a tech guy. So I get a little boner for graphics, you know.
That's fair. But I guess it's tough like for a lot of these developers, like there's only so many
like exactly. So it doesn't make especially with how expensive games have have become like just to
produce. Yeah. So they can't afford to be like, we're just going to target a small niche. Like you
used to do like crisis. When crisis came out, they're like, we're not going to run on everything.
And that's okay. And like, now you just can't afford to not run on everything. Maybe they can
change. And maybe things will get really exciting. But for right now, I just don't care about the new
consoles. So there was a smart wallet that came came out, I think was 2016 on Indiegogo. And
literally ended up happening is like, you know, it was had a theft detection camera, it had a GPS
tracker, it had, let's see, hot spot. And you could literally just do about anything with it,
even said flash flash memory could put here like extra photos on it, you name it. It was literally
like the biggest hype at the time. So fast, fast forward to 2022, six years later, I'm still waiting
to see one. And I backed up at the time as well. It was like, you know, huge hype was generated.
And apparently none of the backers are actually getting their product, which is sad to say,
but I don't think I'm ever ever going to see the product again.