Posted on 09/25/2015 4:58:51 AM PDT by amigatec
If you haven’t figure it out yet, you won’t get it. These devices are really no longer cell phones. The phone is just another app on the portable high-power computer. I use it for:
* Hike navigation - GaiaGPS. Can see my tracks, other peoples’ tracks, set waypoints, load open-source maps for almost anywhere in the world
* Fitness tracking. Cumulative tracking of all hikes and bike rides.
* Photos while I’m out.
* Send those photos to family members to share my adventures.
* Monitoring heart rate.
* Taking notes: “Siri, take a note. Prune the rose garden this weekend.”
* Sending links to interesting articles to friends and relatives.
* Chatting via text message the kids with attached photos.
* Listening to Rush’s podcast on the way home from work.
* Listening to my music collection of many thousands of songs with smart lists for categorization
* Identifying noisy aircraft over my house to submit noise complaints to the airport
* Lastly, talking to friends and family on the phone app
All this on a tiny device in my pocket. It is truly astounding.
If it does, I really, really want one.
Yeah, I would have to break down and get one, too.
Especially, if it has a phaser on overload setting. A great self-destruct feature like that might be good for repeated sells, as long as, the customers don’t blow themselves up.
Jihadist would all be one time purchases. Not your typical Apple customer.
We're not all the same: I'm 77.88, '-) and, when I got my hands on a trackpad, my mice went in a drawer -- and (I guess) they're still there...
I'm a cartographer, and I even use my MacBook Pro's trackpad for ultra-detailed work -- such as entering the thousands of points it takes to create a polygon defining a big lake or complex river! (The secret is "rolling" your fingertip for precise cursor movement...)
Just got a new MBP with the "haptic trackpad" with no "clicker button". Expected I'd make all sorts of extra, spurious "clicks" with it -- but, nope, I find it saves wear & tear on my thumbs, instead...
But, I still can't type on a phone-sized "virtual" keyboard...
I hate typing on my iPhone.
That is why Siri is so great. Voice to text. Send messages easy peasy. I use Siri to find locations, web sites, make hands free calls while driving, etc.
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