Hear Ye! Hear He! Another KeyOne user here also. I can not stand touchscreens and touchscreen keyboards in general - they just don't respond, and when they do, it is always the wrong key. It funny when you freak out your friends with their "swipe" keyboards, where you can swipe and they don't respond at all (not even a wrong word).
I used to have 3 cardinal rules for when I was choosing a phone... 1) User replaceable battery (which unfortunately was the first to go); 2) User installable memory card (see ya later Apple); 3) Physical keyboard (hello BlackBerry/BB Mobile)... I've had to compromise on #1, as virtually all phone today are "factory sealed" with regards to the battery.
I also really miss BB10 as an operating system. I've been about a year and a half with my KeyOne, and still, I continually miss BB10, and curse Android - it's a compromise as physical keyboard phones are few and far between.:(
There is something to be said for a true tactile response on the keyboard that touchscreen just can't replicate.
I seem to recall that Musk wanted to return Tesla to a private company... What a great way to drop the price of the stock, so he can buy them back. Though my memory isn't what it used to be, and I might be cross-linking some other comment from somewhere else.
For me, it is physical keyboard - that pretty much limits it down to a BlackBerry... I've got the KeyOne, which I love the hardware - don't really like Android when compared to BB10. But as far as I'm concerned, physical keyboard is the only way.
Given that tuition and textbook costs have dramatically increased, yet the minimum wage has not kept pace, this is not really surprising.
I remember many of my past professors that went to college in the late 60's and 70's, talked about how they would take the summer off to work and party, that they were able to earn enough to cover their entire tuition and books for the fall and spring semesters. LONG LONG LONG GONE are those days. Today, your lucky if you can find a summer job that will allow you to make rent, let alone, save any sort of money for tuition/books/living expenses. Student loans don't really help in the long term, as the future is mortgaged to pay for the present and that debt will be with you likely for a good 10+ years after one graduates.
With the current trend of steadily increased costs with minimal wage/salary increases to match, it is unlikely to improve any time soon
My biggest peeve is the lack of ports that are being put on laptop, and if you need more, you need a dongle. The last laptop my wife purchased has three UBS-C type ports - one is used for the power supply...If you want to hook up an external monitor, you need a HDMI/VGA dongle.. If you want to use a usb drive (that isn't USB-C), you need a dongle, you want to hook up some other type of device (CD/DVD, etc), you need a dongle.
I feel like I'm back in the mid 1990's with PCMCIA cards with laptops again - A dongle for everything (and I use that in the colloquial meaning, not the traditional hardware copy protection meaning). Form over function - I will admit the laptop looks great, providing you don't need to dongle things up to get things done. I will take function over form any day.
Bullshit. With this past week Anthony Bourdain, not a poor guy by any stretch and Kate Spade, also not the least bit poor hung themselves this week. So any argument about income equality is a load of crap. I won't even mention others like Robin Williams and a slew more not poor folk committing suicide.
Quit thinking in black and white terms. Stop think in strict cause/effect terms. Start thinking contributing factors, start thinking in terms of many shares grey rather than black and white.
You have mentioned 3 famous people in the span of about 4 years. Just in 2015 according to the CDC there were about 44,193 suicides https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fasta...
I'm sorry, your spouting of 4 or so famous people over the course of 4 years when compared to the 44,193 in just 2015. Your argument with income equality not being a cause (again, your B&W thinking style) and think of it as a potential contributing factor. If income equality is a contributing factor, I would argue that higher income could be insulating factor... not a cause, but a contributing or insulating factor.
The fact of the matter is, suicide is happening far too often. It's time we look at what the contributing factors are playing a role in these trends. It is time to take a look at our society and see what changes over the past couple decades could be contributing to these events. I would hypothesize that income equality plays a larger contributing factor that you will be willing to admit. But, I also know there are more contributing factors out there which haven't been discussed.
That was my first thought. I wonder how anonymized the data was? I'm sure there is a unique identifiers (or serial number) for the data, which is linked to the serialized spit bottle, which is linked to a purchase order and payment information. So much for anonymization protecting us.
Now with it in the wild, you don't even need the unique identifier as the your DNA will provide that. But then again, its unlikely your insurance companies don't already have that information. Certain laws state they can't use that against someone, but would be virtually impossible to prove that they did (unless you caught them right in the act.).
I see this as a demand for tangible products. All too often DRM servers get taken off line. There is something to be said by physically picking up a vinyl records and placing it on the turntable that that clicking a couple buttons on a digital player just isn't there. I won't go into the sound debate of digital vs analogue - as everyone has their own opinion on that.
Personally, I like the physical tangibility of the non-digital media. I can do with it what I want, when I want, sell it, loan it, etc. That is something that digital is missing - and it doesn't incur the privacy issues that is so inherent with anything digital.
There is absolutely no reason why Apple, and every other mobile device can't do this. But it doesn't fall within their planned obsolescence marketing strategy.
The Gedit text editor is an excellent example of how formerly-usable software has been destroyed. This is what Gedit used to look like. [wikimedia.org] At that point it had a sane, easy-to-use, functional UI. This is what Gedit has become. [wikimedia.org] It's like 50+ years of accumulated experience and knowledge has been discarded for no good reason, and the end result is a disaster.
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What we have is a generation of software devs who are far too focused on aesthetics and trendiness, with little to no care put toward usability, security, and reliability. They go out of their way to ignore everything we've learned about doing things right. They do things their own way, and it's a disaster.
MY god! You just hit the nail on the head. I have been really hating this new interface style that has been spreading like a bad rash but couldn't really put my finger on what it it was specifically. As of recent (and by recent, I mean over the last 12 years), I found that overall software has become far less efficient to use. I'm thinking about the same time that Microsoft introduced "the ribbon" in their office suite software was the start of the real decline. Enter Windows 8, metro interface, no desktop, etc.
I was just writing it off as me getting old, and "You young whippersnappers...." and "Get off my lawn", resistance to change... But now I'm going back to thinking it is just p1$$-p00r design/implementation of technology. Something that really irked me in the late '80s and throughout the '90s - the only difference then was good established worked processes trumped trendy and aesthetics, while now it is the exact opposite.
Who would have thought that 'everyone gets a trophy' would have such a disaster on software development and user-interfaces.
Great until facebook decides you haven't been posting and participating in their social network and they use the nudes to blackmail you to participate more.
"Facebook has noticed you haven't posted in a while. Would you like us to post one of your uploaded pictures to start the conversation? [Yes] [Yes] [Close = Yes]"
Gates' success is impossible to replicate. He had a "first movers" advantage that is gone now. He was also greatly helped by "network effects". These are also things you need to understand to get really rich.
He also had much less regulation with regards to IP laws - or perhaps the advantage of the IP laws at the time, no one really knew how they applied to technology. And having a rich father that will humor you with a $50k gift/loan to start up a business (not saying it's wrong, but not necessarily available to everyone). And 50k at that time was worth a whole lot more than what 50k is today.
Until you read the fine print on all those forms that you had signed, pretty much allowing such sharing of said personally identifiable health information. Look through the fine print - odds are you've consented to (likely unknowingly) to that sharing. Sad I know.
Another example of issues with electronic storage. Information stored on paper, inherently has security within the medium itself. It is very difficult to walk out with a warehouse of paper files without being noticed (or the amount of time it would take), where as with electronic , you can walk out with the equivalent of multiple warehouses of paper records in your pocket.
Unfortunately big data is not going away. Worst part for us, we have no idea where that information is stored, who has access to it, and who it has been shared with. Virtually every privacy policy has some clause about sharing information with "our partners" or "3rd parties." Well that is wonderful... it doesn't identify who has that access, where it is stored, and who further down the line it may be shared with.
It is to the point, that privacy no longer exists.... and hasn't existed for a long while now. And to try and reign it back in is virtually impossible because we have no idea who has that information, where it is stored, and what information there is.
I guess I should put on my tin-foil hat (shiny side out) and go sit in the corner in a round room.
If it was just a case of the power supply being turned off, isn't it of greater concern that it too so long to trouble shoot and remedy? What about redundant fail over systems? It sounds like there was a lot more incompetence than just a single person.
Again, I will admit, I wasn't there, have no idea how their infrastructure is setup, and so on and so forth. It just seems like there were many different failures on many different levels.
And how is data entry into an electronic system not subject to the same errors that a paper system would be subject to? Yes, electronic systems have the ability to do certain checks that have been established to a set of rules, but paper would not inherently create more errors.
I'll bite on the generation gap comment.....We have and old saying, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" - there is nothing wrong with a hybrid system (as mentioned below in another comment) that would provide critical access to required information should one of the systems go down....
This is a prime example of our over-reliance on technology. For years, since I was a teen in the '80s, I always asked 'what happens if this stuff fails.' I recall events with the phone company, where the land lines wend down for almost 20 hours, due to a failure that cascaded down their redundancy plans. I remember the $#i7storm that arose out of that, both civil and political (this was a gov't crown corporation In Canada).
We see difficulties when the power goes out in retail stores, that staff is unable to 'make the correct change' with a cash transaction because of the over-reliance on technology. Hand a kid ten dollar bill with a quarter, for a nine dollar and twenty-five cent transaction, after he has entered only ten dollars as the tendered amount? Talk about confusion. Talk about the inability to function without technology.
For too long, technology (or electronic, or digital - pick your word) has become equated to good, while non-technological means is bad. Do we ever consider the consequences if technology if it fails and how do we manage during the times of that technological failure.
I worked in care facility, where medications were required to be logged and distributed at specific times for residents. Yes there were electronic health records (EHR), but this portion was kept on pen and paper that was scanned to the EHR daily. Why? Because all too often the EHR system would be inaccessible for what ever reason... where it be power failure, internet accessibility, issues with the corporate network, or issues with the out of state datacenter. The residents would always be able to get their medications due to the non-reliance on technology. All too often technology is implemented for the sake of technology, and rarely is the question asked if this is a good implementation of technology? And better yet, an even more infrequently asked question, what happens if this implementation of technology fails and how do we continue to function without that technology?
Everything in hospitals now has come down to protocols... If X occurs, do Y. Unfortunately this goes as far to determine how treatment is administered - 'we can't do this because there is not an established protocol.' Much of this arose out of the need to protect doctors/hospitals being sued into oblivion. Yet this also prevents and discourages the ability to think on ones own feet, which would have been highly valued in a situation like this. Over reliance on protocols & technology diminishes the ability to think and work through difficulties or problems.
It is truly unfortunate that such an event occurred and that lives were put at risk and/or lost. This is more than just a outbreak of ransomware, but our inability to function when technology goes wrong. That I feel is the greater concern.
And there is always the historical context that you get from printed books that is too often underrated and dismissed. While technology tend to be focused on the newest, latest, and greatest, but often forget how we got here.
And for other non-technology type topics, such as history, and at the risk of being chased out of slashdot, dare I say the social sciences... So much context is lost without the understanding of the historical evolution. Books written on religion for example, especially in North America will have a significantly different context (and bias) when compared pre/post 9/11. Not to mention the now all too common of political agendas being worked into such material - sometimes having a different context or perspective is always a good thing (even if you agree/disagree).
Studying (again a risk of getting chased off) clinical psychology, even within that domain, one could see the political influences, when I first started, everything focused on a multi-multiculturalism and when I was finished everything was evidenced based practice.. and that was just over the course of four years. For example edition 4 of one of my textbooks had absolutely no projective testing (or even any mention of it), while the 3rd edition had several sections describing the various different test that are have been used, both current and past...While the evidenced based nature of projective testing can be argued/debated (and that I won't get into), it doesn't mean they are valueless. Especially with children, some of the projective drawing tests are great for also establishing rapport - something that is often forgotten in the more evidenced based practice focused texts.
People often forget the historical value of book, and the context they provide, which otherwise is lost. Sometimes it nice to see where things have been to truly understand where things are and where they are going.
It comes down to inattentive driving. All these quote/unquote safety features are making the driver feel like then need to pay less attention. The automatic braking for collision avoidance, rear backup cameras, the sonar/beeping when backing up, or the out of lane warning - these while intended to make things safer (intended), but they also make people feel like they can pay less attention because there is an alarm that will let me know when something is amiss (unintended).
I've even noticed with myself, that after driving my wife's vehicle with these feature, I need to really be more actively aware to remember those features are not there when I'm driving my older vehicle - they do lull you into a false sense of security. People are putting far too much faith in technology and not focusing on what they should be doing, which is driving.
How true...I'm still on my Blackberry Q10, and before that, was on a Palm Treo, and before that, Samsung N400 and that's my life history of my cell phone usage. Of course I'm leaving out employment provided/on-call cell phones.
This whole planned obsolesce marketing strategy is becoming overkill when it comes to cell phones, especially with the frequency of new models being upgraded. I find it completely fascinating how the "sheep" fall into line with this marketing ploy.
I have been saying for years, that I don't want a phone that won't allow me to have a user replaceable battery and/or memory card. I would also say the same about the charger, but over the past several years, it has become less of a hassle as most manufacturers they have started to use standardized USB type connections.
So like the original post, no need to upgrade until *I* need to upgrade. And my upgrade schedule doesn't even come close to the marketing's recommended upgrade schedule.
I agree with you there, I'm on a Q10 and absolutely love it. They really did well with the Q10 keyboard. I didn't really like the feel of the Priv, but it was usable. My biggest issue most modern phones is the damn touch screen. Half the time the touch doesn't respond as it should, or it responds with the wrong key response. There is something to be said for the good, tactile response keyboard. I will miss that BB OS 10 when I eventually need to upgrade.
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Hear Ye! Hear He! Another KeyOne user here also. I can not stand touchscreens and touchscreen keyboards in general - they just don't respond, and when they do, it is always the wrong key. It funny when you freak out your friends with their "swipe" keyboards, where you can swipe and they don't respond at all (not even a wrong word).
I used to have 3 cardinal rules for when I was choosing a phone... 1) User replaceable battery (which unfortunately was the first to go); 2) User installable memory card (see ya later Apple); 3) Physical keyboard (hello BlackBerry/BB Mobile)... I've had to compromise on #1, as virtually all phone today are "factory sealed" with regards to the battery.
I also really miss BB10 as an operating system. I've been about a year and a half with my KeyOne, and still, I continually miss BB10, and curse Android - it's a compromise as physical keyboard phones are few and far between. :(
There is something to be said for a true tactile response on the keyboard that touchscreen just can't replicate.
Yeah, Zuck does have that history... He also has a history of non-apologizes apologies.
I seem to recall that Musk wanted to return Tesla to a private company... What a great way to drop the price of the stock, so he can buy them back. Though my memory isn't what it used to be, and I might be cross-linking some other comment from somewhere else.
For me, it is physical keyboard - that pretty much limits it down to a BlackBerry... I've got the KeyOne, which I love the hardware - don't really like Android when compared to BB10. But as far as I'm concerned, physical keyboard is the only way.
Given that tuition and textbook costs have dramatically increased, yet the minimum wage has not kept pace, this is not really surprising.
I remember many of my past professors that went to college in the late 60's and 70's, talked about how they would take the summer off to work and party, that they were able to earn enough to cover their entire tuition and books for the fall and spring semesters. LONG LONG LONG GONE are those days. Today, your lucky if you can find a summer job that will allow you to make rent, let alone, save any sort of money for tuition/books/living expenses. Student loans don't really help in the long term, as the future is mortgaged to pay for the present and that debt will be with you likely for a good 10+ years after one graduates.
With the current trend of steadily increased costs with minimal wage/salary increases to match, it is unlikely to improve any time soon
My biggest peeve is the lack of ports that are being put on laptop, and if you need more, you need a dongle. The last laptop my wife purchased has three UBS-C type ports - one is used for the power supply...If you want to hook up an external monitor, you need a HDMI/VGA dongle.. If you want to use a usb drive (that isn't USB-C), you need a dongle, you want to hook up some other type of device (CD/DVD, etc), you need a dongle.
I feel like I'm back in the mid 1990's with PCMCIA cards with laptops again - A dongle for everything (and I use that in the colloquial meaning, not the traditional hardware copy protection meaning). Form over function - I will admit the laptop looks great, providing you don't need to dongle things up to get things done. I will take function over form any day.
Quit thinking in black and white terms. Stop think in strict cause/effect terms. Start thinking contributing factors, start thinking in terms of many shares grey rather than black and white.
You have mentioned 3 famous people in the span of about 4 years. Just in 2015 according to the CDC there were about 44,193 suicides https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fasta...
I'm sorry, your spouting of 4 or so famous people over the course of 4 years when compared to the 44,193 in just 2015. Your argument with income equality not being a cause (again, your B&W thinking style) and think of it as a potential contributing factor. If income equality is a contributing factor, I would argue that higher income could be insulating factor... not a cause, but a contributing or insulating factor.
The fact of the matter is, suicide is happening far too often. It's time we look at what the contributing factors are playing a role in these trends. It is time to take a look at our society and see what changes over the past couple decades could be contributing to these events. I would hypothesize that income equality plays a larger contributing factor that you will be willing to admit. But, I also know there are more contributing factors out there which haven't been discussed.
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That was my first thought. I wonder how anonymized the data was? I'm sure there is a unique identifiers (or serial number) for the data, which is linked to the serialized spit bottle, which is linked to a purchase order and payment information. So much for anonymization protecting us.
Now with it in the wild, you don't even need the unique identifier as the your DNA will provide that. But then again, its unlikely your insurance companies don't already have that information. Certain laws state they can't use that against someone, but would be virtually impossible to prove that they did (unless you caught them right in the act.).
I see this as a demand for tangible products. All too often DRM servers get taken off line. There is something to be said by physically picking up a vinyl records and placing it on the turntable that that clicking a couple buttons on a digital player just isn't there. I won't go into the sound debate of digital vs analogue - as everyone has their own opinion on that.
Personally, I like the physical tangibility of the non-digital media. I can do with it what I want, when I want, sell it, loan it, etc. That is something that digital is missing - and it doesn't incur the privacy issues that is so inherent with anything digital.
Three words: User Replaceable Battery
There is absolutely no reason why Apple, and every other mobile device can't do this. But it doesn't fall within their planned obsolescence marketing strategy.
As they say, "They don't make them like they used to." Case and point right there.
MY god! You just hit the nail on the head. I have been really hating this new interface style that has been spreading like a bad rash but couldn't really put my finger on what it it was specifically. As of recent (and by recent, I mean over the last 12 years), I found that overall software has become far less efficient to use. I'm thinking about the same time that Microsoft introduced "the ribbon" in their office suite software was the start of the real decline. Enter Windows 8, metro interface, no desktop, etc.
I was just writing it off as me getting old, and "You young whippersnappers...." and "Get off my lawn", resistance to change... But now I'm going back to thinking it is just p1$$-p00r design/implementation of technology. Something that really irked me in the late '80s and throughout the '90s - the only difference then was good established worked processes trumped trendy and aesthetics, while now it is the exact opposite.
Who would have thought that 'everyone gets a trophy' would have such a disaster on software development and user-interfaces.
Great until facebook decides you haven't been posting and participating in their social network and they use the nudes to blackmail you to participate more.
Gates' success is impossible to replicate. He had a "first movers" advantage that is gone now. He was also greatly helped by "network effects". These are also things you need to understand to get really rich.
He also had much less regulation with regards to IP laws - or perhaps the advantage of the IP laws at the time, no one really knew how they applied to technology. And having a rich father that will humor you with a $50k gift/loan to start up a business (not saying it's wrong, but not necessarily available to everyone). And 50k at that time was worth a whole lot more than what 50k is today.
Until you read the fine print on all those forms that you had signed, pretty much allowing such sharing of said personally identifiable health information. Look through the fine print - odds are you've consented to (likely unknowingly) to that sharing. Sad I know.
Another example of issues with electronic storage. Information stored on paper, inherently has security within the medium itself. It is very difficult to walk out with a warehouse of paper files without being noticed (or the amount of time it would take), where as with electronic , you can walk out with the equivalent of multiple warehouses of paper records in your pocket.
Unfortunately big data is not going away. Worst part for us, we have no idea where that information is stored, who has access to it, and who it has been shared with. Virtually every privacy policy has some clause about sharing information with "our partners" or "3rd parties." Well that is wonderful... it doesn't identify who has that access, where it is stored, and who further down the line it may be shared with.
It is to the point, that privacy no longer exists.... and hasn't existed for a long while now. And to try and reign it back in is virtually impossible because we have no idea who has that information, where it is stored, and what information there is.
I guess I should put on my tin-foil hat (shiny side out) and go sit in the corner in a round room.
If it was just a case of the power supply being turned off, isn't it of greater concern that it too so long to trouble shoot and remedy? What about redundant fail over systems? It sounds like there was a lot more incompetence than just a single person.
Again, I will admit, I wasn't there, have no idea how their infrastructure is setup, and so on and so forth. It just seems like there were many different failures on many different levels.
And how is data entry into an electronic system not subject to the same errors that a paper system would be subject to? Yes, electronic systems have the ability to do certain checks that have been established to a set of rules, but paper would not inherently create more errors.
I'll bite on the generation gap comment.....We have and old saying, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" - there is nothing wrong with a hybrid system (as mentioned below in another comment) that would provide critical access to required information should one of the systems go down....
This is a prime example of our over-reliance on technology. For years, since I was a teen in the '80s, I always asked 'what happens if this stuff fails.' I recall events with the phone company, where the land lines wend down for almost 20 hours, due to a failure that cascaded down their redundancy plans. I remember the $#i7storm that arose out of that, both civil and political (this was a gov't crown corporation In Canada).
We see difficulties when the power goes out in retail stores, that staff is unable to 'make the correct change' with a cash transaction because of the over-reliance on technology. Hand a kid ten dollar bill with a quarter, for a nine dollar and twenty-five cent transaction, after he has entered only ten dollars as the tendered amount? Talk about confusion. Talk about the inability to function without technology.
For too long, technology (or electronic, or digital - pick your word) has become equated to good, while non-technological means is bad. Do we ever consider the consequences if technology if it fails and how do we manage during the times of that technological failure.
I worked in care facility, where medications were required to be logged and distributed at specific times for residents. Yes there were electronic health records (EHR), but this portion was kept on pen and paper that was scanned to the EHR daily. Why? Because all too often the EHR system would be inaccessible for what ever reason... where it be power failure, internet accessibility, issues with the corporate network, or issues with the out of state datacenter. The residents would always be able to get their medications due to the non-reliance on technology. All too often technology is implemented for the sake of technology, and rarely is the question asked if this is a good implementation of technology? And better yet, an even more infrequently asked question, what happens if this implementation of technology fails and how do we continue to function without that technology?
Everything in hospitals now has come down to protocols... If X occurs, do Y. Unfortunately this goes as far to determine how treatment is administered - 'we can't do this because there is not an established protocol.' Much of this arose out of the need to protect doctors/hospitals being sued into oblivion. Yet this also prevents and discourages the ability to think on ones own feet, which would have been highly valued in a situation like this. Over reliance on protocols & technology diminishes the ability to think and work through difficulties or problems.
It is truly unfortunate that such an event occurred and that lives were put at risk and/or lost. This is more than just a outbreak of ransomware, but our inability to function when technology goes wrong. That I feel is the greater concern.
And there is always the historical context that you get from printed books that is too often underrated and dismissed. While technology tend to be focused on the newest, latest, and greatest, but often forget how we got here.
And for other non-technology type topics, such as history, and at the risk of being chased out of slashdot, dare I say the social sciences... So much context is lost without the understanding of the historical evolution. Books written on religion for example, especially in North America will have a significantly different context (and bias) when compared pre/post 9/11. Not to mention the now all too common of political agendas being worked into such material - sometimes having a different context or perspective is always a good thing (even if you agree/disagree).
Studying (again a risk of getting chased off) clinical psychology, even within that domain, one could see the political influences, when I first started, everything focused on a multi-multiculturalism and when I was finished everything was evidenced based practice.. and that was just over the course of four years. For example edition 4 of one of my textbooks had absolutely no projective testing (or even any mention of it), while the 3rd edition had several sections describing the various different test that are have been used, both current and past...While the evidenced based nature of projective testing can be argued/debated (and that I won't get into), it doesn't mean they are valueless. Especially with children, some of the projective drawing tests are great for also establishing rapport - something that is often forgotten in the more evidenced based practice focused texts.
People often forget the historical value of book, and the context they provide, which otherwise is lost. Sometimes it nice to see where things have been to truly understand where things are and where they are going.
It comes down to inattentive driving. All these quote/unquote safety features are making the driver feel like then need to pay less attention. The automatic braking for collision avoidance, rear backup cameras, the sonar/beeping when backing up, or the out of lane warning - these while intended to make things safer (intended), but they also make people feel like they can pay less attention because there is an alarm that will let me know when something is amiss (unintended).
I've even noticed with myself, that after driving my wife's vehicle with these feature, I need to really be more actively aware to remember those features are not there when I'm driving my older vehicle - they do lull you into a false sense of security. People are putting far too much faith in technology and not focusing on what they should be doing, which is driving.
I don't change my phone.
How true...I'm still on my Blackberry Q10, and before that, was on a Palm Treo, and before that, Samsung N400 and that's my life history of my cell phone usage. Of course I'm leaving out employment provided/on-call cell phones.
This whole planned obsolesce marketing strategy is becoming overkill when it comes to cell phones, especially with the frequency of new models being upgraded. I find it completely fascinating how the "sheep" fall into line with this marketing ploy.
I have been saying for years, that I don't want a phone that won't allow me to have a user replaceable battery and/or memory card. I would also say the same about the charger, but over the past several years, it has become less of a hassle as most manufacturers they have started to use standardized USB type connections.
So like the original post, no need to upgrade until *I* need to upgrade. And my upgrade schedule doesn't even come close to the marketing's recommended upgrade schedule.
I agree with you there, I'm on a Q10 and absolutely love it. They really did well with the Q10 keyboard. I didn't really like the feel of the Priv, but it was usable. My biggest issue most modern phones is the damn touch screen. Half the time the touch doesn't respond as it should, or it responds with the wrong key response. There is something to be said for the good, tactile response keyboard. I will miss that BB OS 10 when I eventually need to upgrade.
And let the consumer decide how much memory they want/need? Ohh, wait, that's not the Apple way. Silly me.