I’m often reminded of a bit on Top Gear years ago, when they were talking about “turbo” as a marketing tool in the 80s, when you could buy “turbo” sunglasses or “turbo” watches or “turbo” after-shave.
These days it’s Pro. The word lost all meaning entirely. In the vast majority of products that are sold with this tag, it’s just a slightly better version of an enshittified product
LOL, I recall seeing HD sunglasses somewhere roughly 15 years ago. That was the period where everything had to have an HDMI port. I guess someone must have made an HDMI compatible toaster too.
I’m often reminded of a bit on Top Gear years ago, when they were talking about “turbo” as a marketing tool in the 80s, when you could buy “turbo” sunglasses or “turbo” watches or “turbo” after-shave.
These days it’s Pro. The word lost all meaning entirely. In the vast majority of products that are sold with this tag, it’s just a slightly better version of an enshittified product
or “plus”. still waiting for Wallmart Plus and Starbucks plus
and later the turbo button on your pc that actually made the CPU clock slower
turbon’t
2000 or 3000 as product numbers was also a thing.
HD and 3D.
marketing is so stupid. and humans are worse because apparently it works.
LOL, I recall seeing HD sunglasses somewhere roughly 15 years ago. That was the period where everything had to have an HDMI port. I guess someone must have made an HDMI compatible toaster too.
We need turbo smart AI things.
Turbo smart AI potatoes. Turbo smart AI cigarettes. Turbo smart AI lamps. etc.
MOAR! Turbo smart AI thing pro max xl featuring Dante from Devil May Cry