TO has
steadfastly refused to surrender her old pc which even has, for gosh sakes’ a 3
½ inch floppy drive.
Last year
it was contract time so we upgraded our phones [free of charge] to a Sony mobile phone which is half androidy. [See, at least FruitCake
is trying to get the hang of it.]
TO’s new
phone is still in its packaging until I have a spare year when I can take her
old phone to the new-phone-man and make sure we don’t lose her 9 million
contacts in the changeover.
Last
year, the day after her birthday, TO came home from work hinting about wanting
an i pad for Christmas. [Of course, this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that her
baby sister has an i pad, or the immeasurably competitive nature of their
relationship.]
On one of
the many days we took Miss Maude to the vet last year [puppy farm syndromes],
I picked up a piece of paper about a competition to win an i pad. “Here,” sez
I, “we can’t afford a sick dog and an
i pad - if you want one, you’ll have to win it.”
She is as
lucky in her life as I am lucky to know her, which is extremely lucky and so
naturally she won an i pad. 24 hours after the cheesy promo photos were taken, i
pad brought home and a lot of tapping and swiping done, she dumped it in my lap
and said “Here, you have it.”
Smart
nephew dropped in one night and, over time and with a little hint here and
there from various smart people, she is now addicted to playing yahtze and
chatting with people from all over the world.
I’m
confident it’s only a matter of time before she asks me to change her phone over.
And
maybe, just maybe, she will eventually upgrade her PC to a new gee whiz
interactive touch screen version. It will be good if we can afford to do so
soon, because her i pad-champ little sister is getting frustrated trying to
tap/swipe all the stuff on her home PC screen before remembering she needs an
old fashioned mouse. That would place TO a couple of points up on little sister!
Would you really want a touch screen desktop computer? I certainly don't but I believe it is easy to download and app to make Windows 8 look like Windows 7. Of course if you are talking Apple, I know nuffin'.
ReplyDeleteAndrew, the chap I work for owns two companies, and one of them is in IT. Their current policy is to only install PCs with the CPU incorporated into the on-desk screen, [i.e. no box under the desk needed] but they are also chugging ahead with touch screen software in anticipation of a big change in the corporate sector.
DeleteIt's all PC based, and none of it apple.
But no, I wouldn't want a touch screen PC. I'd wear myself out lifting my arm to touch it.
As for me, when I get a new phone contract the first thing I do is cancel all services except Australian calls, and SMS. I didn't even know I was connected to the net a few years ago til I got a bill for data downloads [the accounts department asked me if I had a teenage son? ROFLMAO.]
I swear I know nuffin about nuffin, all I do is answer the phone.
TO and I I have a lot in common FC..apart from the fact I did get an iPad for my birthday and I loooooooove it!
ReplyDeleteGrace, no sarcasm intended, I am very happy for both of you. All I want is something to read books on [if someone will show me how to do it].
DeleteAs a determined technophobe I have so far resisted upgrading my non-smartphone, separate camera, and non-mouse computer screen. But today I witnessed the end of analogue TV as all the stations switched to digital only. End of an era? Or beginning of a new age?! You tell me!
ReplyDeleteLOL - one of the discussions on ABC this morning was about the moment "you" suddenly realised you were of another generation [i.e. I think they were really talking about "old"].
DeleteA friend of mine [may she rest in peace] was forever saying "you remember when the Olympic games were in Melbourne... well..." and I would have to remind her I was in nappies and don't even remember wearing them.
Change can be a milestone as much as a once in a lifetime event. Colour TV? B&W TV? Transistors replacing valves? Electricity?
Do you have a work reference that says you were once a ledger machinist?
"What's a pianola?" the young man asked. "An analogue ipod" sez I.
C'mon Red, you tell me... when was the first time you realised you were of another era?