As you acknowledge, not all new technology is better (for the desired application).
Most tech companies want to make money as their primary goal, rather than "make people's lives better with our tech".
As their goals in selling items are largely orthogonal to improving one's life calling someone a "laggard" -- which bears a slightly derogatory air -- simply for not buying in to a tech company's latest money acquisition effort seems, well, strange.
Most tech companies want to make money as their primary goal, rather than "make people's lives better with our tech".
As their goals in selling items are largely orthogonal to improving one's life calling someone a "laggard" -- which bears a slightly derogatory air -- simply for not buying in to a tech company's latest money acquisition effort seems, well, strange.
Perhaps "discerning" is a better description.