From Ye Old Blogge: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 Smart phones dumb bunnies

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Some old pre-Blogspot.com posts, recycled.

Smart phones dumb bunnies

Here's a cute story. Smart phones fox frustrated users - go ahead, go read it, it's a hoot - that has me thinking again.

The story claims that smart phones are too hard for their owners to work out. Awwww, poor dumb bunnies... One of the quotes I love most:

Intuwave points out that configuring the e-mail function on the SonyEricsson P800 involves 12 separate parameters. A mistake in just one of these can scupper any chance of using the device to send and receive mail.

Setting up an ordinary email program involves around the same or even more parameters. How do these jerks get their email anyway? Oh, I see - AOL...

'There is a huge gap here,' he said, 'and it's high time we saw a mobile care revolution.'

Gee I wonder where precisely that gap is?

These are random blog posts I recently rescued from a text dump of my earliest recorded blog posts from Ye Good Ole Days of writing stuff in Notepad and using some weird software that basically uploaded your entire blog every time you added a new article or edited an old one.

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Title should be: From Ye Old Blogge