I'd be interested if you could break these issues out a bit more :
- connection to the internet; seems to me that this is a trade off, without some sort of network access it's hard to see how many devices can be useful in many applications. But that connection can be constrained.
- firmware upgrades - is this about trust?
- hides data - ok, I get this, but many users are not able to spend time working out what is going on.
I agree that corporations tend to privilege themselves, but of course the world is not just made of users. There are government actors and rogue actors as well, most users can't defend themselves - how should the playing field be organised in your opinion?
The point is that we're all playing the user role much more then the company owner/employee role.
Products and services are developed by companies and if they don't design things thinking about how they as users of those products and services would like to be treated, then everybody would have a worse overall experience.
There are simply some business models that produce far more negative experiences for more people then the actual gains for the owners. Advertising is the first example here..
We're all experiencig life as users and I'm saying that the systems we deign should be user centric so that from one's perspective everything falls into place seamleslly, without fragmentations..
Currently when interracting with technology I'm feeling that it's not designed for me but for the one that built it..
- connection to the internet; seems to me that this is a trade off, without some sort of network access it's hard to see how many devices can be useful in many applications. But that connection can be constrained. - firmware upgrades - is this about trust? - hides data - ok, I get this, but many users are not able to spend time working out what is going on.
I agree that corporations tend to privilege themselves, but of course the world is not just made of users. There are government actors and rogue actors as well, most users can't defend themselves - how should the playing field be organised in your opinion?