But much of the marketing for smartphones concerns just such
convenience issues as picking a restaurant (or a store, or some other
way of consuming); so this isn't my idea. In nearly all the
commercials I've seen, convenience and consumption are the main
selling points of smartphones and portable smart devices. There's an
app, we are told, for all sorts of ephemeral stuff; but I haven't yet
heard of an app to target the company that's most likely to get you a
job, or the app to tell you which hospital has the best outcomes and
lowest infection rates, when you have to undergo some kind of medical
procedure. Maybe really useful apps like these exist, but they
aren't in the commercials.
And as far as meals in Georgetown restaurants: my point was that some
of us can afford neither the phone nor the restaurants. I agree, I
would give up the meals to get the phone, but right now that isn't an
option.
--Constance
On Jun 30, 2010, at 11:07 AM, tjpa wrote:
You are mixing up your own finances with the objective value of a
new technology. I would gladly trade a few meals at an Georgetown
Italian restaurant to pay for my iPad. And I use it for much more
serious purposes than picking a restaurant.
On Jun 30, 2010, at 2:38 AM, Constance Warner wrote:
Sure, it would be convenient to walk through Georgetown, looking
on your iPhone for the nearest Italian restaurant (or Japanese, or
Ethiopian, or whatever), and you'd look really cool doing it. But
lots of us just can't afford iPhones--or Georgetown restaurants,
either.
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