I found an interesting article from Wired magazine about a trend I bet you've all noticed: http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/magazine/17-09/ff_goodenough
The quote in the thread title is from the article and I'm VERY split about this. On one side I really do appreciate the (sometimes extreme) extra accessibility products and services like this offer. But on the same time I crave high quality in both what I do myself and from the products and services I buy and use. The example of MP3 in the article is a good one, while I can only tolerate it at near its highest quality settings many people seem to be content with 192k CBR, or even 128k.
I'm certain the trend will continue and strengthen over at least a medium time scale, but hopefully people in general will demand much better quality even from cheap tech products in the future as the technology more and more allows for it.
What do you all think about this?
The quote in the thread title is from the article and I'm VERY split about this. On one side I really do appreciate the (sometimes extreme) extra accessibility products and services like this offer. But on the same time I crave high quality in both what I do myself and from the products and services I buy and use. The example of MP3 in the article is a good one, while I can only tolerate it at near its highest quality settings many people seem to be content with 192k CBR, or even 128k.
I'm certain the trend will continue and strengthen over at least a medium time scale, but hopefully people in general will demand much better quality even from cheap tech products in the future as the technology more and more allows for it.
What do you all think about this?