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Mr. Luddite

On 9/9/2014 3:22 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:48:19 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

My "problem" with the iPhone battery is not the cost of replacement so
much as it is Apple's never ending quest to make its phones thinner and
thinner and thinner. The iPhone 6 introduced today is even thinner than
the iPhone 5S. For Apple, the thinness means a sealed phone that
requires pain in the ass effort to change out the battery. My old 'droid
phone allowed me to open up the back of the case and pop in a newly
charged and really larger battery.

I didn't see anything in the iPhone 6 announcement today that will
motivate me to became an "early adopter."

The kid who works for my wife is standing in line for one as we speak.
He is eating the whole $800 nut to buy it since he does not want to
lose his current contract.

The funny thing, he is buying it because the screen is the same size
as my wife's Note II.. He was originally critical of it.

As a founding member and plank owner of the Luddite Society I am
grateful that I never succumbed to whatever draws everyone to iPhones,
Smartphones, texting, emails, picture taking and whatever else they are
used for.

I seems to me that it's a well orchestrated marketing ploy to sign you
up to a long term contract and then come out with new phones every 8
months with "have to have" bells and whistles. My wife is hooked. She
can't live without her iPhone at her side and the damn thing beeps,
burbs or farts every other minute. Annoys the hell out of me when we
are having a real, live conversation and I look over at her and she's
texting away to someone while carrying on our conversation ... sorta ...
or playing Scrabble with 4 or 5 people at the same time.

I have a phone. Don't know what it is or who makes it because I very
rarely use it and when I do it's only to make a phone call. Probably
gets used once or twice a month for about a minute or less. People know
not to even try calling me because I never answer it.