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Ariella
3/26/2017 10:03:23 AM
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Re: Not surprising
@JohnBarnes kids do seem to find mobile devices much more intuitive to use than older people. So perhaps there is something to that.
mpouraryan
3/26/2017 1:45:13 AM
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Re: Smartphones double usage
Mine also works like a charm--a testament to the prowess of the Engineering that is at the heart of how such things sustain themselves!!!
mpouraryan
3/26/2017 1:43:48 AM
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Re: Smartphones double usage
We should celebrate that transformation--not frown on it. I note this because, for instance, I have deployed my older iPAD to use as a second screen in my office using Duet--such "data" includes things that were not even possible--so I would not be too nervous--but celebrate--change is always healhy--right?
mpouraryan
3/26/2017 1:41:56 AM
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Re: Smartphones double usage
So far, we're not there--yet. Wearables have to "stand on their own" and not be dependent. Look at what happened to Pebble....but what is fascinating is something like this which may be the "future" of wearables:
https://www.chooseblocks.com/discover/overview
mpouraryan
3/26/2017 1:39:12 AM
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Re: Not surprising
The Phone is the "HUB"no doubt--and not just for those of us "Techies", "Journalists" et. al. We all should embrace--if we have not done so already--that it is part and parcel of our lives--whether we like it or not.
JohnBarnes
3/26/2017 1:10:40 AM
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Re: Smartphones double usage
Mike,
Hey, I'm still using my old iPhone 3 GS as my main phone. I thought I might have to finally give it up for a brief hour last week, till I found it had just slipped down behind the seat of my Model T.
JohnBarnes
3/26/2017 1:08:36 AM
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Re: Not surprising
Ariella, Mpouaryan,
Well, way back around 2000 people were already dreaming of the "fully self training" products that would have no manuals and no help; they'd just be so obvious and intuitive that any kid could pick them up and make them work. I got paid a nice chunk of change to write a white paper about the concept.
At the time I was sure we'd never get there. But we're already further than I thought we would get. And I think there's a lot more room to run.
JohnBarnes
3/26/2017 12:53:53 AM
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Re: Smartphones double usage
Ariella, dcawrey,
If you're in a job where account management is a big part of it, you often have a company smart phone you have to take home with you (which you then usually forward to your own phone so you don't have to carry both if you're out for the evening). I've known people who had to carry four phones: their own personal, customer support/management, confidential one for the company attorneys and upper management, and a general sales-and-deals line. (This was for a senior big-deal broker in a large financial firm). THat way when (not if) the company got sued they could compartmentalize on what they turned over.
Never saw all four phones ring at the same time but figured it was bound to happen sometime .... as a sometime comedy writer I figured it would be something useful to see ...
Anyway, production of phones is now so quick and cheap that even if the whole country had to have four smartphones each, it would only take a year or two at most to equip everyone, and then you'd be right back to saturation.
mpouraryan
3/25/2017 11:38:09 PM
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Re: Smartphones double usage
..and I would humbly add to what @Adi noted about how it is fundamental to our productivity. I would not be able to work on my startup and its' curation--along with the periodic things I do on Media (creation/updates for my Twenty20 App) was it not for my iPhone. It is a crucial link--but if we do in a smart and responsible way. What is bothersome is when one continues to see, for instance, folks on their phones driving and checking text messages--which I really don't understand.
mpouraryan
3/25/2017 11:34:51 PM
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Re: Not surprising
The only "Flip phone" alternatives I have seen is when one, for instance, wants to go to say a "GO Phone"--which is OK. How far we've come, though...that's the implicit message on how people seem to be tiiring to old technology......
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