[GreenKeys] OTsome charting on the death of desk top computers-seems the phone and tablet

[tony.podrasky]

GM OMs;

Hello Jeff;

Just a couple of additions:

1. I bought a Motorola RAZR back in 2005 - after I retired - and the
    only reason I bought a mobile phone is the women in my congregation
    needed to get a hold of me - and couldn't - and, well, you know what
    happens when you (try) to argue with ONE woman - let alone a group...

2. The phone went bad this year. I went on eBay and bought a refurb,
    that was just like the one I had. Did not have to "learn" how to use it.

3. I'm on the T-Mobile 1,000 minutes for $100.oo program. I refill my
    phone about every 9 months. My wife's monthly bill is $60.oo

No, - I'm not a technophobe: in fact, I'm retired from working on super
computers - and as a consultant to the gummint. (Think of what the
gummint did with super computers...)

My desktop computer with the quad 3.4GHz processors and 16GB of memory
can handle anything I throw at it.

And, should I need it, I have a Galaxy 10.1 tablet that I "rooted" so
I could tune it like I did to my desktop (it was my wife's tablet. I
told her she wouldn't be able to use it - but she bought it anyway.
After a month she sold it to me for 1/2 price...).

If I had ONE WISH, I would wish cellphones would disappear from
existence - and never be reinvented (I've almost killed two teenagers
because they were walking in the street - and never even looked up
when I had to jam on the brakes and swerve to miss them!)

UE,
K2EAA - TONY
NNNN
ZCZC


On 04/28/2015 10:07 AM, Jeffrey D Angus wrote:
> Remember when you /talked/ to people on telephones? And typically that
> was while standing in the kitchen. ;-)
> It was equally hard to ask your girlfriend "What are you wearing?" with
> your mother standing there, as is was for her to answer with her father
> standing around at the other end.
>
> On the "death of desk top computers", I doubt it. If I'm going to watch a
> movie, I am NOT going to watch it on a 2" x 3" screen on an iPhone.
> Neither am I going to watch it on a 10" tablet.
>
> Nor am I going to play swipe and stab trying to use AutoCAD or Spice
> programs.
>
> I have a flip phone. I use it to make PHONE calls. I do the occasional
> text messages because that seems to be how some people prefer to
> communicate. As annoying as it is, I use proper grammar, spelling and
> capitalization.
>
> I'll admit it's nice to be able to take the occasion picture of what's on
> the work bench to send to my desktop back at the office/house.
>
> I have NO desire to waste my free time in some mind numbing game
> like Candy Crush, or Mafia Wars on a cell phone/tablet.
>
> In all fairness, I was given a 4.3" tablet for my birthday a few years ago.
> Next to impossible to use due to the small screen. I bought myself a 7"
> tablet, at least I can read it, but again, about all I use it for is a
> nifty app
> for reading signal strength of the WiFi signals.
>
> Am I a Luddite? No, I just haven't decided I have to do what everyone
> else is doing.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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>
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