LaggyKar

The problem is some authors signing exclusivity deal with Amazon, which means breaking the DRM and converting it is the only way to read it on a different e-reader.

This article really needs some illustration of what the new UI looks like, and what the old one looks like for comparison

We’ve been without a lot of things for millennia

Not sure if Google Lens counts as AI, but Circle to Search is a cool feature.

Not to the point where it’s worth having a button for it permanently taking up space at the bottom of the screen.

On a lot of phones you can hide the navigation pill, but Samsung started forcibly showing it when they added Circle to Search. Fortunately I don’t have a Samsung phone.

They’re also generally lower quality

A big blocker that the article surprisingly doesn’t talk about is tons of IoT stuff that uses 2G and 3G. Stuff like alarm systems, emergency phones, street light control, cars etc. Here in Sweden there was recently a report that thousands of elevators have emergency phones using 2G and 3G, and if the network is shut down you would no longer be allowed to use those elevators. And since 2018 all new cars in the EU has to have eCall, which alerts emergency services on a crash. Many of these use 2G and 3G, and if it stops working the car won’t pass inspection so you’ll no longer be allowed to drive it.

A more expensive, clunkier product, with a bunch of needless fluff in it.