It takes quite some research to find single-purpose devices, that are tailored for a specific use case - and are not overburdened with often unused features. There‘s not enough metadata out there on ecommerce sites to filter for that.
Take the microwave example:
I‘m happy with the Samsung MWF300G microwave which does just one thing (heating stuff) really well in a very straightforward way:
One haptic dial for duration. One for Watt. And a simple display for time.
Just use the duration dial to set the time. That‘s it. You‘re done by turning your hand just once.
It starts automatically. No start button needed. No program selection. No stop button - just dial it back to zero if needed.
I believe that’s the one I got, too, after looking at basically all the options available. It’s still, I regret to tell you, a terrible product.
First of all, the sound design is criminally bad. Whenever you touch the controls it lets off an obnoxious beep that is way too loud for a home environment. It should of course be completely silent, except a pleasant sound to let you know it is done, and of course, like other reasonably designed home electronics, it should allow you to adjust the volume or turn the sound off completely. (Imagine, for sake of argument, that your iPhone beeped whenever you touched it. It would be bizarre. Why would you want that in a microwave oven?)
Second, the controls are flimsy and glitchy. If I try to increase the time slowly or by a small amount, the value tends to jump erratically up or down by some random amount. I need to firmly push the dial inwards while turning to avoid this.
Third, except for the noise pollution of those beeps, it also brings in more light pollution in my home, through a blue blinking seven-segment display that insists on always showing the current time. This is a bad feature that is irrelevant to the purpose of the microwave, and I would prefer to turn it off.
Finally, I hate the way it looks. Silver-coated plastic, reflective blacks and blue LEDs looks good in a cheap sci-fi flick, not in a home. What’s funny is that the inside actually looks pretty nice, a navy-blue metal with an organic white splatter pattern.
Obviously you could build an aggregator with an API that gives you a stream of news. People have been building niche news aggregators on Wordpress for almost two decades by plugging in some RSS feed urls.
It's just the kind of obvious lame idea that stops me from seeing more compelling usages of this sort of cool API.
Does WorldBrain Memex save any data about the sites I bookmark?
I‘ve been using Onenote for the past 10 years to bookmark or save websites.
It had worked OK to share from mobile but my Onenote notebook is now approaching 10 GB in size.
And I have a pretty bad experience with syncing as it doesn‘t reliably sync in the background if I don‘t regularly open the app on mobile (especially on iOS).
Which isn't foolproof. I just tried to change my Apple ID password[1], and the password manager will only auto-fill the password field, not the verify password field, even if you invoke it with the cursor in the verify field. The only option is to copy and paste the password (or manually copy a 64 character password).
[1] I'm fairly sure I've copy-and-pasted my Apple ID password recently - I had to reauthorise my Apple ID (I think I was changing payment details), and there was no option to use the password manager (might be pre-iOS 13, so I'm not sure if that's still the case).
This doesn’t work everywhere; there’s been more than one occasion that I’ve had to copy/paste a password out of Settings because the system hasn’t detected a password field or gives me incorrect suggestions.
Also, once you’ve got a password manager installed, it tends to get used for more things than just passwords. iOS’s non clipboard password/login doesn’t help me any when I’m copy pasting, say, my bank details from a secure note in 1Password.
You can still make backups on all platforms. So it would be a matter of restoring a backup. Typically someone with local vaults also syncs (to either iCloud or Dropbox) so in theory as long as they still have access to that account they can sign in and access their 1Password data. I'd still suggest backups in addition to that, a sync file is constantly changing, and is not an actual backup.
A neurologist prescribed me Metagelan.