Hey Traci, If it’s not broke, don’t fix it! Janet
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Traci Duncan Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 10:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: A Matter of Perspective - Was: iPhone XR vs iPhone 8: What's the Difference 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 8:02 AM To: viPhone E-Mail List <[email protected]<mailto:[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. I certainly appreciate the “pocket computer” aspect of the modern smart phone, but I do get a chuckle when I hear about how they are designed to last a long time; again, meaning maybe 5 or 6 years! ;-) **************** - Bill from Ino, Wisconsin - “When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same.” - Contributor Unknown -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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