Ben Thompson criticizes digital life as too complicated
What happened
On October 5, Hacker News featured a post about Ben Thompson saying on the Dithering podcast that helping his mother manage her digital life felt too hard and too complex, and that it made him ashamed as a tech worker. The author says family members complained to him the same night, and he often hears "nothing works" and "everything is too hard to use" from relatives and friends outside tech. The author calls these difficulties a collective failure of the industry. The post covers Thompson's feelings and the complaints the author recorded.
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- Hacker News front page"I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry"
Ben Thompson 在 Dithering 播客中表示，帮母亲管理数字生活时感到一切太难太复杂，作为科技从业者倍感羞愧。作者当晚也收到家人类似抱怨，称常从科技圈外的亲友处听到"什么都用不了""一切都太难用"，认为这是科技行业的集体失败。
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