Traci; You can’t go wrong with the older technology. It’s worked for years and it will continue to work for years. I go back to the days of the old Perkins Brailer in the braille watch and I still use them today. I still also used my braille. Take care God bless Anthony
Sent from my Verizon iPhone X!!! > On Sep 18, 2018, at 11:40 AM, Traci Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Isn’t this all the truth! I have my same Perkins Brailer from when I was a > child. 😉 and we are talking a while back now. > > It is sometimes an internal tug-of-war for me between wanting the new > technology and keeping what I have that works perfectly well. LOL! Works > perfectly well and I still like it. > > Amused, > Traci > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 18, 2018, at 8:18 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Bill, >> >> You are correct, in terms of an old style telephone or, for that matter, a >> quality analogue watch with a wind-up mechanism, the iPhone and Apple Watch >> have very short life spans. However, an iPhone is as much like one of these >> old telephones as a computer is like an electronic calculator. I still have >> my Sharp talking calculator and watch bought around 1985, shortly after I >> became blind. Both still work just fine and they essentially do what a basic >> calculator and talking watch do today. However, that doesn’t mean my iPhone >> or computer do a lot more and as it is the nature of technology, it >> continues to be developed and people continue to want whatever new designs, >> features, larger storage capacities, better cameras etc. are part of said >> technology. >> I guess one could say it’s comparing Apples to Oranges, pun intended. >> >> >> From: 'Bill Gallik' via VIPhone <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 8:02 AM >> To: viPhone E-Mail List <[email protected]> >> Subject: A Matter of Perspective - Was: iPhone XR vs iPhone 8: What's the >> Difference >> >> I suppose what ‘m about to write here can be attributed to my “Long in the >> Tooth” age, but I find it so very amusing when it’s suggested that the smart >> phones (any brand) will last a long time - meaning maybe 5 or 6 years. I >> readily recall when a telephone was designed and manufactured to survive all >> but a nuclear blast. >> >> In fact, one of the first quite interesting bits of information I learned >> when I first began working at AT&T Bell Labs was that the company had a >> concrete platform at the base of a 10 story building in New Jersey; that >> concrete platform was used as a proofing ground for new AT&T telephone >> designs. A prototype telephone would be repeatedly dropped from the 10th >> story onto the concrete platform until it continued to function properly >> after that 10-story fall. >> >> Times, and customer expectations, certainly have changed over the past 60 >> or so years. >> >> And, yes, I understand that these smart phones do so much more than the old >> POTS telephones. But ultimately, I believe that the principle purpose of >> having a phone of any kind is to make telephone calls. 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