Mobile hardware is dead-boring

Back then, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola each model had a personality. Flip phones, swivel screens, QWERTY sliders, Walkman phones, Cybershot cameras. It was hardware creativity on fire.

  • Same black slab.
  • Same notch or punch hole.
  • Same “Pro Max Ultra Plus” naming BS.

Innovation is replaced by optimization. It’s safe. It’s boring.

Android killed differentiation. OEMs stopped focusing on what makes us unique, and just started competing on spec sheets. Same OS. Same chips. Same cameras with fake AI buzzwords.

Apple: A Cult of Repetition

They mastered the art of selling yesterday’s tech with tomorrow’s hype.

  • 5-year-old features dressed in new clothes.
  • Same camera bump, same design language, same app grid.

Apple is not innovating, they are monetizing a well-oiled machine. And people buy the story, not the substance.

Cars and Bikes: Design Fatigue

Just like phones — the soul is gone.

  • Every bike is a “sporty” naked version of the last.
  • Cars all look like overdesigned appliances.
  • EVs made it worse, everything must now look like a damn spaceship.

The emotional, handcrafted genius is missing. Mass production won. Soul lost.

Now to GPT: The double-edged sword

  • GPT is a loop of past knowledge.
  • GPT is trained on what humans already created. That includes all the great breakthroughs, inventions, failures, wild experiments. But it’s all retrospective.
  • GPT is not a source of creativity. It’s a lens on past creativity.

So what happens?

  • People use GPT to learn, yes.
  • But increasingly, they use it to avoid thinking.
  • And worse: companies use it to replace thought.

You get AI-generated emails, blogs, apps, reports. All efficient. All soulless.

Here’s the danger: Creativity decays

If we keep consuming what GPT regurgitates and never build from scratch, never do the hard thinking. The pool of knowledge shrinks, not grows.

  • We’ll have more content than ever, but less original thought.
  • GPT will keep sounding smart, but it will be recycling mediocrity.

It’s the intellectual equivalent of inbreeding. Eventually, the system collapses under its own laziness.

What needs to happen?

  1. People need to suffer a little again. Comfort is killing creativity.
  2. We need to reward weirdos and tinkerers again.
  3. AI like GPT should be a ladder, not a crutch. Use it to level up, not to cop out.

GPT is incredible, but if people treat it as the end and not the beginning, it’ll be the death of original thought.

“A society that relies on AI to think, will forget how to imagine”. If you care about creativity, don’t outsource your brain. Use tools. But stay dangerous.