[silk] Does The Landline Telephone Need An Heir In The Modern Age?

[Udhay Shankar N]

I'm intrigued, not so much by this specific product, as by the notion of
reinventing an explicitly multi user, physical object. I'd be interested in
comments from silklisters, especially the various anthropologists.

Udhay

I lly, a gadget that makes it easy for families to stay in touch, may
signal how technology will develop in the Internet of Everything. In the
headlong rush toward the smartphone era, we've quietly abandoned communal
gadgets like the landline and adopted personal devices that weren't
designed to be...

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Re: [silk] Does The Landline Telephone Need An Heir In The Modern Age?

[Rajesh Mehar]

Isn't Skype already doing exactly this in countless Indian families? Other
than the sentimental philosophising, I actually can't see the value add
from this new product.

Sometimes the 'Indian' sharing mentality anyway stretches the use of
products like Skype and WhatsApp. E.g. I've seen 5 schoolboys all chatting
with one phone using WhatsApp. Don't know who they were chatting to, but I
can imagine that they're sharing the WhatsApp account similar to sharing a
Samosa that they pooled in to buy...