![]() ![]() Like me, she is app-crazy-but-talk-little. And I’m thinking of getting my wife an iPod touch as an adjunct to her Verizon cellphone, rather than switching her to an iPhone. My 8-year-old son wants to buy an iPod touch for himself with his Chinese New Year money. ![]() Think of how our sci-fi shows would be different if they knew what we know now. Turns out that given the choice, we prefer faster and more convenient ways to write to each other. ![]() Just because the telephone was invented after the pen doesn’t mean that we want enhanced ways to talk to each other, i.e. This is one thing, by the way, that futurists have constantly gotten wrong. Meanwhile, I sent and received many hundreds of e-mails, instant messages and SMS text messages. In the last 3 months, I only spent an average of 5 minutes per day actually speaking on my iPhone. I use my iPhone incessantly for everything except talking on it. My reply is less ambiguous: “Abso-freaking-lutely 100% true.” The original poster child for Aspergers, Mr. A startup guy, Chris Dixon, recently wrote this Aspergers-tinged tweet: “The worst app on my iPhone is this thing called “Phone” where you have to speak synchronously with other humans.” ![]()
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