Reddit Asks the Question: 'What Common Product Has a Feature You’re Not Sure Everyone Is Aware Of?'

By Petr Navovy | reddit | January 22, 2024 |

I’m sure we’ve discussed this before here, but one of the more interesting trends I’ve heard about in the last few years is the sudden reversal of the established tendency for successive generations to be more proficient with new technology. We took it for granted for the longest time: Each new wave of ‘the youth’ would know how to use the latest cutting-edge tech better than their parents. I was born in the late ’80s, right at the point where so much new technology—home computing, the internet, games consoles, mobile phones, smartphones—was either introduced or matured alongside me, so for my generation, this was just the natural order of things.

Now, however, it seems that thanks to a lot of that technology coming pre-packaged and enclosed in ‘it just works’ Apple-style proprietary hardware and software, the younger generations are losing the ability and instinct to look under the hood and tinker with things. That suits the big corporations that want to sell you a new iteration of their product every few years, and a loss of consumer agency in general falls perfectly in line with capitalism’s tendency to monopolisation.

I couldn’t help but think of this trend when I came across this AskReddit thread the other day, which asked the question: ‘What common product has a feature you’re not sure everyone is aware of?’ You can check out the full thread here, but below are some highlights:

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Reddit Asks the Question: 'What Common Product Has a Feature You’re Not Sure Everyone Is Aware Of?'

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