Posted on 12/09/2015 6:13:01 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
lets just correct that little goofball generalization.
Phones in general often have poor receiver/transmitters. Many consumers don't bother to research that part of a phone.
For people whom that part of the phone is critical to {people in rural areas, contractors who work in metal buildings) there are websites which measure that.
You could more accurately say that Apple has never put much work into that part of their line of phones. Apple has never been the whole market though.
I also carry one of those Kindle tablets in case I need to go on-line on the road or want to read on a plane. It gives me a much better picture than a silly smartphones. About the only real use I'd have for a Smartphone is to take pictures of checks to deposit. That would be handy but not enough to justify a monthly fee as long as banks still accept deposits at ATM machines.
Yes, initially, they pretty much WERE the smart phone market. Before them were the 'feature phones'. (Yes, some folks call Blackberrys and Palms 'smart phones', but they weren't. As anyone who's been tethered to a Blackberry knows.
I upgraded to a ‘slide phone’ with a keyboard a few years ago- I prefer texting to calling. But I may go back to a flip. And yes, a cheap Kindle Fire for keeping up with FR on the road.
If I don’t have a smartphone, I can’t do business, and no I don’t want to have a chip in my brain if that’s what they’re getting at.
No.
Apple was very much a late comer to the smartphone market.
I used HTC phones for years before Apple finally joined the market with their iPhone line.
Consumers into the whole human cattle/ shared herd experience thing didn’t become aware of them until Apple entered the market...but then Apple never enters any market until after the pioneers and the second generation developers prove that market financially viable.
Where’s my Flying Car?
some idiot walks off the edge of a cliff while texting.
Gubmint declares smartphones are hazardous to our health and bans them.
But instead of riding in it, it will be hovering next to them as a convenient alternative to the current bulky and unwieldy smart phone.
Forgive me for just saying that it just proves Darwin was right on at least some things.
No thanks but I would trade you my used PL/1 books from college.
Not sure at this point what could conceivably _more_ convenient and info-dense as a pocket-sized tablet.
A little over a year ago, my wife and I had decided to upgrade to Android smartphones.
A friend suggested that we find Phablets to use as phones and as tablets. My wife’s need was to be able to text and make a few calls each day to friends and relatives and receive calls with texting as a priority. She wanted at least a 5 inch screen phablet. I just wanted something to access the internet with wifi and link to sites like FR and be able to make phone calls and receive them without going to my home office. I fly fish and kayak, need a small cell to fit in a waterproof pocket.
We could not find phablets to meet our needs. I gave my wife an Alcatel 5.5” Android Tracfone. I got an Acer 8” tablet and a small LG Anroid Tracfone. We got the above for Christmas last year.
I had been using the Chrome Browser with my desk pc and my wife also had a GMail acct with her old Tracfone. So we were able to set up our new Android phones and my new Android tablet with minimal hassle.
I offered to buy my wife an Android tablet, with her fairly
large screen on her Alcatel, she didn’t want another device.
She texts with her Alcatel and makes phone calls at home on our wifi and 11 months later is very happy with
She accesses Google and other sites and is able to remote print with with Google print on our HP envy. She uses MySMS premium for texting and a lot of Google approved apps from weather to local tv news. Some of her friends have bought the same Android and are happy with it.
I use the MySMS texting app with my tablet and new Acer Chromebook via their linking app to my little cell phone. This works great as long as I link my cell phone to their cloud link each day. My use of my little cell is very limited to basically having it available for emergencies and allowing my wife or family members to call me when I am out of the house. I may upgrade to a waterproof android with a larger screen.
We can’t afford Iphones nor have any need for them. However , we have younger relatives in key management positions, who need to be in contact with people in their corps at home and in the field. One uses the larger screen new I phone and no longer needs his portable laptop. The other uses the smaller size new I phone as he has an active management role and is often out of the office doing his thing.
Last week we had dinner with some friends. Two of those attending had the new I Phone’s with the big screens. One is a commercial property manager, and he uses his Large Screen I Phone instead of a laptop to keep in contact and for his people to contact him. He has a chronic disease and has the Apple watch to monitor heart rate and ? with his I phone.
The other big I phone guest has her own business in graphic design and uses her large I phone for recalling her designs from her office Mac and other business needs when she is away from her office.
Like our younger relatives, they enjoy use large screen I phones instead of laptops when away from their offices.
At the end of the dinner, the women scheduled the next dinner on their I phones and my wife with her Android. One of the women will order the phone like my wife’s to replace her old and expensive to use I phone. She has zero need for the newer I phone like two of the other guests at the dinner.
Here's my technological desire: a freaking phone screen that won't crack from normal use - nothing short of smacking it hard with a brick for drilling it with a tungsten carbide bit will affect it. Think you can do that, phone companies? This built-in obsolescence crap (as in products DESIGNED TO BREAK) is NOT going over well, let me tell you.
There’s rather a difference between “not everyone needs a top-end smartphone” vs “smartphones to die out in 5 years”.
I am expecting a resurgence of small smartphones. Phablet-scale devices don’t work for some, where a tablet and paired sub-4in “it’s a phone - it makes calls” work better. If not for my business need for a latest iPhone (app developer), I’d rather keep an iPad Pro nearby and a 3” iPhone Nano in my pocket.
OK, so the smart phone goes away.
Mobile communications devices with access to the internet are not going away.
Call ‘em what you will.
Land lines will always work.
ha, at first glance, I read your headline as:
Stephanopolous will die out within five years”
I thought...”well, bye”.
lol
You should look at APL some time. Difficult to program, impossible to maintain. It even required a special keyboard to input the special symbols.
For them to die in 5 years the replacement would not only have to be out but popular now. So no. I do think eventually the smart watch and/or glasses will win out, but not until they’re able to stand alone.
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