35 Things That Were Presented As Amazing Upgrades, But Were Downright Awful

Removable batteries are coming back, at least in European Union. From 2027 all phones will have replaceable batteries.

I have all this on my phone. Yes, I can not replace my battery on my own,. but the case can be opened and parts replaced. And It has been let fallen at least twice, everything was okay. It is good not having a bitten apple on the back of it ;)

Also, klling FM radio on handsets

How else can they get you to buy a whole new phone rather than a new part?

Don't buy an Iphone. Most android phones come with all of that stuff and they don't send out phone wrecking updates right before the new version comes out.

I read yesterday that there is now a class action lawsuit against Amazon for doing this. It says that our Prime membership is now "less than", as one of the reasons we bought into Prime was the ad-free TV, but now they want us to pay for it. Hope it stands up in court & we all get a settlement fee.

One of the richest men in the world can't afford to bring us new content without advertising.

Prime is cr@p. Tried it twice now and won’t be fooled again. Most of the offerings on it are B and C grade cr@p

If only they wouldn't have produced the most expensive show that everybody made clear not going to watch... fitched Prime last year when they raised prices

Yeah, Amazon needs more of our money to produce content....meanwhile, Bezos builds spaceships because...why not?

I wouldn’t even mind purchasing any upgrades to the system I had bought and downloading them from the manufacturer’s website, as long as I owned the basic program and could never lose it and all the files on it simply because I missed the due date to pay for another year.

I'm glad I made digital copies of all my old software. I'm never upgrading from Office 2007 and Adobe 11. I'll reuse my license keys forever

How about car brands taht make you pay to use heated seats? Yes, I'm talking to you BMW!

I have On1's 2019 software which is very much buy to own but it's been a process to learn and I am okay paying $10.59 a month for Lightroom Classic.

Everything is subscription based these days. Check how many monthly deductions are coming out of your account.

Our washing machine came with Wi-Fi, I've not connected it up, I'm not going to stop in the middle of shopping or a meal out just to run home and empty the machine because it has informed me the wash program has ended.

This one. I don't need a fridge ordering food for me, I can get some Pizza dough together all by myself without internet connection and I have never felt the need to start my oven when I am outside my house.

My washing machine and cooker both have touch buttons, but both are temperamental and sometimes don't register that they are being touched. The washer even has a WiFi connection 🤷🏼‍♀️

I bought a countertop dishwasher a few months ago with that "feature". I just ignore it.

I just want a fridge with a bottom freezer and a door ice maker so I don't have to keep opening the freezer.

It would be one thing if they installed automatic voice control in conjunction with the touch screens. You don’t have to look at the screen to tell it to turn the radio or the wipers on. But they didn’t do that, and you’re right, after bitching about distracted drivers, it’s downright hypocritical of automakers to then proceed to replace buttons and knobs (that every car owner has memorized, because they’re generally located in about the same place in every car) with touch screens that have no automatic voice control to mitigate the need to look away from the road. I see a rise in pre-touchscreen used car sales coming in the near future.

I like the touchscreen for some things but stuff you adjust constantly light lights, wipers, radio and climate control should have physical buttons and dials so you can adjust them by feel.

Yep. The new Golf GTI is a stellar example of horribleness.

Don't tip - people walk by the panhandlers on the street daily, do the same when you purchase items. And never tip more than 15% for exceptional service. 10% is more than enough.

If you didn't bring it to my table, you're not getting a tip.

And the %they request is going up, can’t start at less than %20.

Sadly its spreading outside the US. I know here in Australia there are some places that ask for tips. Like for example, Dominos Pizza asks if you want to tip the driver when you place your order. Tips should be for exceptional service, or when someone goes out of their way to be helpful/accomodating. They should not be expected, nor given to someone for just doing their job.

This was a thing before covid...all of the new devices have this software...just hit skip and stop stressing over it.

Show them a QR code that leads to a picture of some money as payment

I hate these so much. I want an actual menu to peruse. Not my phone.

I hate this because I have pretty bad eyesight and reading anything on my phone is a pain.

We just leave. I'm not putting your app on my phone just to order dinner.

One reason they do this is so that they can change prices easily. Put the price on a physical menu and you have to stick with it until you can reprint the menu.

I ran across this the other day and thought it might be useful. Amazons customer service # is +18882804331. I've never called it so your mileage may vary.

Air Canada recently unpublished their chatbot because it gave incorrect refund information to a customer and a court ordered them to pay half of what the chatbot said. The chatbot had advised that a lady could get a full refund if they booked an emergency flight due to bereavement. Then Air Canada argued that they weren't legally bound to honor what one of their agents said.

When my wife and I moved to the UK, from the US, we started out with a particular ISP. We picked them because they were cheap. Turned out, their alleged customer service was just as cheap. We told them we were canceling and going with a different ISP. They said they'd send us a box, all we had to do was put the router in the pre-labeled box and send it back to them. The box never arrived, so I tried to look up what physical address to send the router to, because our original ISP claimed they'd make us pay for the router if we never sent it back. Well, I never found a physical address, we still have the old router, and they never did charge us for it, so I assume at this point they're taking it as a loss. Oh well.

I had to call the courier service's "helpline" because they delivered the wrong item. The robot asked me to read out the tracking number and completely misheard what I said four separate times. Who does that "help" exactly?

Give real people real jobs not bots!!!