Post by Chris Lionheart on Oct 11, 2011 15:09:39 GMT
I'm sure everyone here has someone in their family (parents or grandparents probably) whom you think could benefit from some new technology. Unfortunately they resist it like the plague, unless it's thrust upon them by society (Digital TV, Touchtone phones, CD/DVD).
I like to think that trait is exclusive to the elderly but meanwhile I'm as guilty of it as the next person. For Example:
Smart phones.
I used to always say that I only needed a phone for calls and texts. Picture messageing in the late 90s and the first camera/video phones in the early 00's didnt impress me much either. Turning me off "smart phones" for several years. The iPhone and the Android platform came out and I couldn't have cared less. Talk, data, and texting plans were expensive. I'd rather have no phone, or a very simple cheap phone than be locked into a $70 a month Talk Text and Web contract on a phone you have to struggle to use. Besides the phones only seem to last 6 months before a new one comes out anyway.
And then Miriam bought herself an android phone (HTC Desire S). Whenever I am on this it is my portable internet browser.
I like to think that trait is exclusive to the elderly but meanwhile I'm as guilty of it as the next person. For Example:
Smart phones.
I used to always say that I only needed a phone for calls and texts. Picture messageing in the late 90s and the first camera/video phones in the early 00's didnt impress me much either. Turning me off "smart phones" for several years. The iPhone and the Android platform came out and I couldn't have cared less. Talk, data, and texting plans were expensive. I'd rather have no phone, or a very simple cheap phone than be locked into a $70 a month Talk Text and Web contract on a phone you have to struggle to use. Besides the phones only seem to last 6 months before a new one comes out anyway.
And then Miriam bought herself an android phone (HTC Desire S). Whenever I am on this it is my portable internet browser.
