Last Sunday I joined the collective and I now have a cell phone. Nominally it is a reward for completing the Death Race.
Some people (you know who you are!) will be upset to hear that I got an iPhone. Many more are jealous, and contemplating getting one themselves. I’m wondering if I’ve spoiled myself.
When I got my first car, it was a Honda Civic. The thing is very reliable and I’ve had little trouble with it. It is made for people who just want to drive comfortably without having to deal with a host of problems. The cup holders are even designed well. You pay a premium over American cars, but you earn it back over time with less hassle and fewer repairs.
But I’ve never had to deal with the headache of an American car so I don’t know how bad it is for other drivers. Failure to empathize. I remember getting a car rental briefly and astonished at all the little things that were poorly made. Starting with using the key to unlock the door. (You have to turn the key awkwardly to do the more common operation of unlocking instead of locking.)
This is also my opinion of Mac versus Windows. But I do have a Windows machine at work so I do get the idea. Mainly I’m learning to hate Java, but that’s another story.
Now, with an iPhone, I’ve got a well engineered phone that seems to like me. Everyone else has a cellphone that has features no one uses, and a confusing interface. Yet I’ve never dealt with those, so I can’t relate. This just works.
I have gotten rid of my land line, so all phone calls now depend on the iPhone. Luckily, (I have tested this) I can still let people in the front door of my building through it. Heck, I don’t even have to be in the vicinity to do that. (Or even the same province, but I don’t want the roaming charges.) There isn’t much point to that if they can’t get into my unit, but it is an option.