A Phone Which Is Anything But A Phone
written at Thursday, July 16, 2009
Take the widely popular iPhone for example, it has all the features in the world, the only thing it does not have is the ability to make you a cup of coffee. It's jam packed with applications like stock market readings, weather forecasts and a plethora of other things which I cannot mention from the back of my head. If you gave this device to let's say, my grandma, telling her to make a phone call, I am VERY SURE the first thing she will ask you is, "How do I dial ah?
Exactly Grandma, exactly. It may be a simple "How do I dial ah" but this statement has a very deep and profound meaning if you want to read into it. It is no wonder how elders are said to have "More wisdom than us." For the sake of maintaining good profit margins, mobile phone companies are constantly evolving the mobile phone designs and technologies. And as usual, for the sake of money, they evolve the humble phone design to this piece of I-don't-know-what-it-resembles which doesn't even look like a phone.
There are so many instances where these devices get accidentely dropped on the ground. And poof $1200 of cash disappears at an instant. I can name you a few people whom I have seen having cracked iPhone screens but I shall not say it, for my safety.
I can think of a billion gazillion googillion other phone designs which would serve it's primary purpose better than the iPhone. What is it's primary purpose? Calling, DUH.
Couldn't you have come up with a smarter name? You didn't call the MacBook the iLaptop, did you? Given Apple's track record of modesty, how about the 'iGenius', or the 'iReinvented The Phone, Honest'.
A Phone Which Is Anything But A Phone
written at Thursday, July 16, 2009
Take the widely popular iPhone for example, it has all the features in the world, the only thing it does not have is the ability to make you a cup of coffee. It's jam packed with applications like stock market readings, weather forecasts and a plethora of other things which I cannot mention from the back of my head. If you gave this device to let's say, my grandma, telling her to make a phone call, I am VERY SURE the first thing she will ask you is, "How do I dial ah?
Exactly Grandma, exactly. It may be a simple "How do I dial ah" but this statement has a very deep and profound meaning if you want to read into it. It is no wonder how elders are said to have "More wisdom than us." For the sake of maintaining good profit margins, mobile phone companies are constantly evolving the mobile phone designs and technologies. And as usual, for the sake of money, they evolve the humble phone design to this piece of I-don't-know-what-it-resembles which doesn't even look like a phone.
There are so many instances where these devices get accidentely dropped on the ground. And poof $1200 of cash disappears at an instant. I can name you a few people whom I have seen having cracked iPhone screens but I shall not say it, for my safety.
I can think of a billion gazillion googillion other phone designs which would serve it's primary purpose better than the iPhone. What is it's primary purpose? Calling, DUH.
Couldn't you have come up with a smarter name? You didn't call the MacBook the iLaptop, did you? Given Apple's track record of modesty, how about the 'iGenius', or the 'iReinvented The Phone, Honest'.
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