My iPhone works as an iPod. Pain in the butt. Wanted to buy a separate MP3 player. They’re trying very hard to do something. You tell me what it is.
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“My iPhone works as an iPod. Pain in the butt. Wanted to buy a separate MP3 player. They’re trying very hard to do something. You tell me what it is.”
When I look at my family and what we expect from our computers, smart phones printers and whatever we use on a daily basis. It is a amazing what we do and expect from our electronic stuff.
My wife prefers to do 95 % of her stuff with her 3 year old Samsung smart phone/android, her reading with a kindle and a Amazon Fire tablet. She might use her Chromebook a few minutes a week. She uses my printers with the HP wireless app.. She texts, emails and uses a land line phone to communicate with friends, relatives, church people and to keep up with the news and our local newspaper’s web site. Again, most of this is done on her Samsung smart phone.
Our 2 land line phones were down for 2 days, and neither of us really missed them. I resuscitated them by turning off the land line backup battery and unplugged the land line modem and plugging them back in a few hours ago and not a single call has come through after we went back on line.
I prefer to use my/our chrome books to read and answer mail and most tasks. My 4 year old Samsung android not so smart phone may be on its last legs. So, do I replace it with a phone similar to my wife’s, get a Google Fi/5g or go to a granny phone.
If they come out with 5G chrome books that would allow me to use one anywhere and any place, I might opt for that and a granny phone to talk and text only.
Our adult sons in their mid 50’s are as opposite as my wife and I. One has a company, I phone 10? something. It and its worn out case makes him look like a street person with a phone. At home he and his better half share one of the latest Macs. She gets her books on their new IPad.
The other son is the opposite, he has the latest I phone/pad and uses them all the time. His office computer and programs are about a decade old and his tech people refuse to help to keep it alive. He refuses to allow his company install a desktop computer at his home.
His wife has the latest Apple everything that is electronic in her home office. Her I Phone and Pad are the latest on he market. She has a couple of one person businesses, and she writes off most of her electronic gear.
After the Covid B$, and so many people working at home or just retiring, buying the most powerful and newest out of their pockets is becoming a big no go.
One relative became a widower last year an ended up with his wife’s latest I Phone. He gave up dealing with it and now owns a Jitterbug. He gave that I Phone to a younger relative.
His wife had a nearly new Lexus SUV. He is passing that onto another younger relative. He is now driving a Honda Ridgeline. His brother gave up his I Phone earlier and went to the JitterBug. They don’t need complicated phones and and expensive system. The JitterBug meets their phone needs.
Apparently, there are at least 20/30 million Americans like my 2 BILs and maybe me re these complex and expensive cell phones. Do we really need them?