PLANET ASTRO SLIDE 5G
With the exception of high-end, high-fidelity sound systems, British consumer technology isn’t often fantastic. In technology as a whole, the country punches well above its weight, but when it comes to neat stuff for people to buy in stores, not so much.
What’s British and works well tends to look either cheap or utilitarian, while what looks beautiful is too often quirky to the point of being simply unreliable. This is not just the view of famously self-deprecating Brits. The grimly funny scene in Mad Men in which the British character Lane Pryce attempts suicide in his E-Type Jaguar only to find it won’t start shows how the brand’s reputation at that time for flakiness crossed the Atlantic.
