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lupestripe ([personal profile] lupestripe) wrote2011-01-21 08:10 pm
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Technological snobbery

There seems to be a lot of it around.

Anyway this is my first entry on lj with my new iPhone - I am actually writing this on the bus and feel I have entered the technological age. Either way it should give me something to do during the tedious bus journeys to and from work. The problem is that the potholes on the roads make typing on a keypad extremely difficult.

Also as I am sat here, I realize how annoying most bus patrons are. If they are not smooching loudly they are talking inane drivel far too loudly on their phones, listening to music so loud it could deafen a dolphin or in the case right now some pillock is trying to break beat whilst his girlfriend is pretending to be a mildly aroused dog.

People are strange.

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[identity profile] blueberrybadger.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
blackberry ftw!!!


What's yer gamecenter handle?

[identity profile] lupestripe.livejournal.com 2011-01-22 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
I thought about the Blackberry but it seemed far too professional for what I needed. Plus there are business reasons why I opted for the iPhone too.

I don't know what a Gamecenter handle is, sorry.

[identity profile] simbab.livejournal.com 2011-01-22 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Blackberry built their reputation on rock-solid integration with enterprise e-mail (basically Microsoft Exchange). They had mobile e-mail years before anyone else; now everyone and his brother has push notifications of e-mail to their @aol.com address or whatever. There was a time when businesses paid top dollar for their employees to have that.

I'm not sure what they have to offer now, I fear that they might be threatened in this new ecosystem of mass-market smartphone ownership.

[identity profile] lupestripe.livejournal.com 2011-01-22 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps. I thought about getting a Blackberry but decided it wasn't best for my needs.

[identity profile] stuart-otterson.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
All they offer is nostalgia hehe. :)

[identity profile] lupestripe.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes nostalgia is a good thing. Not in the field of technology though.

[identity profile] blueberrybadger.livejournal.com 2011-01-22 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
What's your iPhone gamecenter account I'd? Mine is thebluebadger :p

[identity profile] lupestripe.livejournal.com 2011-01-22 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't set one up - I didn't realise you could.

[identity profile] stuart-otterson.livejournal.com 2011-02-11 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I've added you now Blue! :)