Regrets, we've had a few — and they're not too few to
mention. The more tech you have in your life, the more tech regrets you're
likely to have.
Whether it is the platform you jumped on just as everyone
else jumped off, the phone battery that died at the worst possible moment, the
moment of madness when you bought a Zune or a BlackBerry Playbook.
So which tech decisions are you likely to regret today?
These are my suggestions...
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Buying the Bad Windows
See if you can spot the pattern. Windows XP was good.
Windows Vista wasn't. Windows 7 was good. Windows 8 appears to have destroyed
the consumer PC industry.
Scrimping on storage
Manufacturers' prices for flash storage are often insane,
but opting for the smallest capacity is almost always a mistake. The OS
immediately grabs a bunch of gigabytes, and a half-dozen cat GIFs will quickly
fill the rest.
Forgetting the backup bit
Everybody knows that you should always back up your stuff
before installing a major software update — but they know it in the same way
that they know you should eat healthily, drink moderately and drive within the
speed limit.
For most of us, the "remember to back up!" bit of our brain only kicks in halfway through reformatting a hard disk.
For most of us, the "remember to back up!" bit of our brain only kicks in halfway through reformatting a hard disk.
Leaving the house with less than 63% battery life
63% might seem like a lot when you're at home, but that's
because you have Wi-Fi and distractions. Step outside the front door and you're
good for roughly six minutes.
Buying a device running old-Android
There are two kinds of old-Android buyers: There are the
people who don't care which version they have, and there are the people who
bought a device expecting the manufacturer to provide a firmware update to
KitKat. The second lot are easy to spot, because they're crying.
Keeping files in the wrong formats
If you're transcoding video, ripping music or storing
anything for future safekeeping, make sure it's in a format you'll still be
able to access years from now, not a format whose continued existence or copy
protection system depends on the continued goodwill of a handful of companies
(or worse, a single company).
