Quality of Everything Decreasing?
Is it just me or is the quality of...well, everything decreasing? I mean everything as in products, services, etc.
Examples: I keep going through apple earphones like crazy. One of the earbuds just stops working all of a sudden while my dinosaur earphones are still fine. I've had the XFINITY/Comcast for the past 5 years now and recently it's been a lot slower and disconnecting a lot more. Customer services are terrible for pretty much every company.
Okay, maybe these aren't the best examples but things don't feel as...good as they did in the past. Nowadays, I find myself trying to troubleshoot wifi problems or fix a new product I bought. Anyone else feel me?
July 7, 2015
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Just compare the OT of Star Wars with the newer movies like Phantom Menace and you know it's true.
2 options...
A) your mind is playing tricks on you, the brain usually makes past experiences seem much better than they originally were
B) crap really is deteriorating.
i feel the same way actually, when I was younger items seemed much sturdier and better made. I'm not sure about history but maybe it's also cause a lot more items are produced in China now with cheap items and stressed workers (how do you get quality from that?). When I was smaller there were probably more 'made in Germany' items (talking from my perspective here since I'm from Germany) that were assembled with more care.
There's also more products available so people spend much less on an item now than they used to I think (considering how my granny paid A LOT for her blender back then (which still works I think), it's also the greed that does this. There's more items available but not exactly any more money so you gotta budget for every item... *shrugs*
I recently bought a gigabit ethernet switch, and when it came the damn thing rattled so I took it apart and found one of the two mounting screws for the main circuit board was floating around inside the case. Gawd knows what it might have shorted out if I'd powered it up while it was laying on top of stuff.
So I tried to put the screw back in the empty hole and it wouldn't screw in. Taking a close look at it shows there were no threads on the screw. So whoever was putting it together in a sweatshop in China somewhere apparently just tossed it inside the case and buttoned it up... AND.. no "quality control" person thought to question why an ethernet switch would rattle.
In addition, the 5 LEDs that show when something is plugged into a port were all crooked on the circuit board (doesn't show from outside the case, so I guess nobody cares about making them line up), and the heatsink on the big integrated circuit is stuck on at a funny angle.
The sad thing is it's a "brand name" unit, not a cheapo knockoff. Since the USofA has given up being a manufacturing country, that's all you can get any more.
@mibs What guy have you been under? Not all things from China are bad
Do economics at college
[quote=AkGold]@tiesandbowties Nah[/quote]
what rock have you been under
@tiesandbowties actually part of OP's point is that stuff made from China years ago still works while stuff made in China recently doesn't work.
@AkGold: uhh okay.
@tiesandbowties Nah
@AkGold: things from China have always be crap quality mate.
@tiesandbowties So things from the past are not made in China? It's more like Americas screwing itself over once again.
well that's what happens when you buy things that are made in china