I find browsing web/social media to be worse these days especially indoors, but maybe ot is a consequence of better insulated buildings?

I’m guessing something like lack of competition for apple may stagnate innovation but in apples case I don’t think they react to external pressures like that anyway.

Hey VW, I’d pay 21k if it had software that worked reliably and backlit temperature sliders…

Adoption of new technology can sometimes play out like this.

Initial surge of early adopters who will take a risk on new technology.

Then a cooling off until prices are adjusted to encourage the next wave of buyers.

Then mass marketing to entice the rest.

Critical mass will happen and then it will become the norm.

We are probably heading into the second phase now and that’s when manufacturers and policy makers can really nudge this forward. Cost and risk (resale, range anxiety, infrastructure, longevity - whether justified or not) will need to be addressed now.

It’s possible Norway (the usual example) has accelerated this sequence.

The key point being that a slowdown after the first phase is normal but is often reported as problem or indication of failure etc.

Hi, look, in the past we developed and sold you a product that we aren’t super proud of, considering how dependent we all are on it nowadays.

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In order to atone for this we’d like to sell you an equivalently priced product we developed but you won’t have any of the core benefits so you can feel better about the cost.

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Sure, we could have used our vast resources to fund research into the effects and solutions to screen time dependence, but we thought you spending money would be a better way to help you.

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Thanks all,

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