Stupidest product design you’ve experienced

[LSLGuy]

It helps to understand that modern packaging is about 99% about anti-theft and about 1% product protection from damage.

Their goal is to make it difficult for a thief to quickly and deftly remove the small product from the deliberately bulky & balky packaging. If it’s slow and arduous, that’s good from the manufacturer’s POV.

So slow down, accept that you’re wrassling not with a product, but with the inevitable detritus of shoplifters enshittifying the world, then use big strong tools deliberately to make short easy work of the task at hand.

[Mama_Zappa]

@LurkMeister

I remember when American Airlines, even in coach, had audio jacks where you could listen to a variety of music channels. They even passed out free earplugs you could use if you didn’t have your own.

We traved on United last March. In coach, my regular headphone jacks worked for the in-flight entertainment.

We upgraded on the way back - and there was a different kind of jack on those seats - an older style, I think, that won’t fit regular headphones.

[Dewey_Finn]

Delta Airlines had something similar. Generic headphone jacks in coach seats and dual jack over the head headphones in Delta One seats.