Yea I agree with you. I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade. These devices are cool and if that's what floats your boat - fine by me.
It just seems to me that a lot of these devices developed (at great expense, damage to our own economy, at high environmental cost due to toxic materials and embedded energy costs of production, etc.) to supposedly "make our lives easier" really do the opposite.
You have to spend SO much time downloading upgrades and patches and accessorizing these things, configuring them, etc. that it actually takes MORE time in the long run than simply solving the problem(s) they're meant to address another way. Computers are a perfect example. Why the hell do I need to spend $1,500 on a computer, god-knows-how-many hours of some IT geek's time to configure and maintain the stuff, just to draft and write a 2-page letter that I could write by hand in 10 minutes or type on an "old fashioned" typewriter in five? Yes, I understand there are SOME applications where the computer word processor might make more sense - if you're having to make many letters to a mailing list, or embed graphics or whatever. But the point is, 99% of the people out there DON'T need that particular tool. They've been convinced by slick marketing, not by superiority of product. I guess when the only tool you have is a hammer, all problems start looking like nails. And Bill Gates, Sony, LG and Apple are excellent marketers of hammers.
One of the reasons I like my 911 so much is because the most complicated electronic gizmo in it is the headlight switch.
OK maybe I am being a little "backlash" against electronics. I guess I just get sort of turned off by the throngs of people that mindlessly swallow this marketing crap and sell out our country to China in the name of getting more of it - for no REASON other than to have more of it. Yes, it bugs me.