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| PlainName:
--- Quote ---Do you really need a smartphone? --- End quote --- Yes. Er, no. Probably. Phone isn't important to me apart from SMS which is the most important part (before smartphones and dumbphones I used a pager). But I like the ability to carry a camera, have a map, share my real-time location on a run, be told when the doorbell is pressed, etc. Apart from the text ability all the others are useful but non-critical, but add them all together and it's irresistible. Hell, even my partner who swears blind that phones, and particularly smart ones, are spawn of the devil currently carries three around! I think what you should be asking is, "do you really need to be checking FaceUp every 5 minutes?" AFAICS, there is nothing about a smartphone that forces you to use any part of it you don't want to, or even carry the thing at all. Or own one. The problem is not the phone. |
| Fredderic:
--- Quote from: Siwastaja on February 18, 2022, 05:49:19 pm ---Do you really need a smartphone? --- End quote --- Yes. It's my phone. watch, calendar, wallet, and expansion memory. Before the smartphone I had an actual wallet, a PDA, a watch, and no phone, and they all periodically got damaged, broken, or outright lost. These days, I only even have my wallet when I drive somewhere, and I can use a slim one that's basically just a couple cards. Looking after one phone has been much easier (I've only broken one, and that was a fumbled 0.5m unlucky drop on to concrete), rarely lose it, and the rare occasions when I do, yelling "Hey Google, find my phone" (or getting the nearest person to call it for me) quickly resolves that! Plus, sooo much less stuff crammed into my pockets. Do you really need power? Of course not. You can live without it… but… I'm not sure I'd want to — wouldn't be able to charge my smartphone! |
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| PlainName:
--- Quote ---The only thing I can't do is if some crap company etc. absolutely requires me to use an app only available for a specific brand of "smartphone", from their app store, and purposely offer neither a web interface nor a portable application. --- End quote --- Now that is a problem that can get right up my nose. There are some suppliers, and even one of my banks, who insist that support chat is performed via the phone app - I really hate typing more than a few words on a tiny virtual keyboard (and am amazed at those who can two-thumb at near normal typing speeds). I put this kind of thing down to phones being more common than Windows or Mac or Linux, and it's cheaper to target one device than everything. Is it better than developing a Java app? Hmmm. So here the popularity, and usefulness, of smartphones has worked against the users of them (except those users who do actually live via their phones). |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on February 19, 2022, 09:37:08 am --- --- Quote ---The only thing I can't do is if some crap company etc. absolutely requires me to use an app only available for a specific brand of "smartphone", from their app store, and purposely offer neither a web interface nor a portable application. --- End quote --- Now that is a problem that can get right up my nose. There are some suppliers, and even one of my banks, who insist that support chat is performed via the phone app - I really hate typing more than a few words on a tiny virtual keyboard (and am amazed at those who can two-thumb at near normal typing speeds). I put this kind of thing down to phones being more common than Windows or Mac or Linux, and it's cheaper to target one device than everything. Is it better than developing a Java app? Hmmm. So here the popularity, and usefulness, of smartphones has worked against the users of them (except those users who do actually live via their phones). --- End quote --- That kind of thing is a reason to switch to a different bank or whatever. Funny thing is, if you say that to them, more often than not, it turns out it isn't necessary to use the app after all! |
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