It's probably because Access fucking sucks, leaving excel as the only database adjacent program available to office workers. I would love to be able to use anything but excel on my projects. Hell, python and some CSVs would make my life so much easier, but I ain't going through IT to let me have that, and it opens up a HUGE can of worms in my line of work if I start using homemade scripts. The execs can pay for a LIMS system if they want me more productive.
Similarly, if you go back even further into console and PC gaming history you can find some game that use what, looking back, would be considered terrible control layout and/or gameplay mechanics.
Shouldn't they though? They are already competing at a disadvantage. If selling Bluetooth headphones allows them to continue making phones as sustainably as possible, shouldn't they do so instead of going out of business or compromising elsewhere?
My kitchen is about 100 sqft wall-to-wall. No dishwasher so no matter what I do, there's dishes in the sink/counter. EVERY DAMN TIME I try to cook a slightly complicated meal, my fiancée wants to help, the dogs want floor snacks, and the kid suddenly decides they want fridge snacks (they NEVER look in the fridge for food) and to know what's going on with the smells and noise.
It's an exercise in patience to not yell angrily at every living being to get the fuck out (both fiancée and kid have anxiety and ADHD, dogs don't give a shit about my opinions on their chosen location).
My stepkid had one of these exact ones. He pulled it out and the outside sleeve detached.
The internals on these are incredibly unsafe. There's a very high chance you can rip it out, and the tines will remain plugged in, with nothing to grab onto to remove them. The tines themselves are only pinched internally by a weak little bit of metal to connect to the rest of it, not even soldered.
I've been forced to start calling these wall dongles by my fiancé, I made sure that in order to accept this terminology that wall warts with the cord attached are now dingle-dongles, and the ones with a cord before the electronics are dangle-dongles.
My favorite experience was coming to work and seeing a dedicated scientific instrument computer with the blue screen, error message was "bad pool header" or something, QR brings me to generic ass troubleshoot page. Google error and it says "something ain't right, could be either software or hardware related, restart and you should never see it again" it did this every 4 days or so until we just re-imaged the damn thing.
I wouldn't want any other person to touch my keyboard. I blame the lack of accessible cleaning supplies and the fact that if anyone higher up sees me not staring at my screen with a hand on the keyboard they'll think I'm lazy and not working. Which is true, but they don't need to be thinking that.
I was going to mention in another part of this thread about doom 2016 on the switch. The switch has no right to be able to play it, yet it's fantastically playable.
Our work tried to push thin clients. It didn't go well because they did not invest in the back end and infrastructure to do it. Constantly unable to reach the server, often bogged down because three people were running heavy applications where they should have had a dedicated machine, the storage server was sometimes a microwave link away that would nearly die if it was raining.
I'm usually at three different workstations throughout the day, sometimes there's even three others that I might end up at, and it was so nice to just connect to my instance and continue, nothing's worse than opening up an excel you worked on for two hours at a workstation five minutes from your current one and it's "locked by another user" and you don't remember what all you might have changed from your last save.
I do not do any resource intensive work that isn't on a dedicated machine, so I would be perfect for thin client use. But there were so many little things they didn't or couldn't do that built up to it being a useless endeavor.
It's probably because Access fucking sucks, leaving excel as the only database adjacent program available to office workers. I would love to be able to use anything but excel on my projects. Hell, python and some CSVs would make my life so much easier, but I ain't going through IT to let me have that, and it opens up a HUGE can of worms in my line of work if I start using homemade scripts. The execs can pay for a LIMS system if they want me more productive.