Thread: iPAD vs Tablet PC: Forget the iPAD

Originally Posted by Rigger

Originally Posted by DrB0b

a very basic mobile phone for SMS and calls, and a desktop computer at home. I don't see the need for anything else

So really you dont travel much and dont require the new generation of phone as you arent sitting in airports or living out of hotel rooms like many of us do.

Nope, I travel all over the place. Phones work nearly everywhere, even in places where you can't instantly update your facebook page with the fascinating news that you've just taken a dump. In the few places they don't work I've just lain back and enjoyed being alone and independent, a situation the facebook, skype, and twitter pansies can't even contemplate without breaking into a sweat.

My entire career has been about communications, that means I know the difference between communicating and when you should just shut the fuck up. Mostly people, all people, including me, should just generally shut the fuck up. Nobody needs to know every piece of flatulence that the polloi mistakenly believe to be their thoughts.

Nobody needs the new generation of phones. You've just been sweet-talked by marketers into believing that all you need to make your life complete is to suck their dicks. If you want a toy then admit you want a toy, there's nothing all that bad about that, just don't make a dick of yourself by pretending it's a necessity.

How the fuck did you deal with life 20 years, or even 10 years, ago when you weren't able to spend your every waking moment sucking on technology's tit?

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Nope, I travel all over the place. Phones work nearly everywhere, even in places where you can't instantly update your facebook page with the fascinating news that you've just taken a dump. In the few places they don't work I've just lain back and enjoyed being alone and independent, a situation the facebook, skype, and twitter pansies can't even contemplate without breaking into a sweat.

My entire career has been about communications, that means I know the difference between communicating and when you should just shut the fuck up. Mostly people, all people, including me, should just generally shut the fuck up. Nobody needs to know every piece of flatulence that the polloi mistakenly believe to be their thoughts.

Nobody needs the new generation of phones. You've just been sweet-talked by marketers into believing that all you need to make your life complete is to suck their dicks. If you want a toy then admit you want a toy, there's nothing all that bad about that, just don't make a dick of yourself by pretending it's a necessity.

How the fuck did you deal with life 20 years, or even 10 years, ago when you weren't able to spend your every waking moment sucking on technology's tit?

My career now is about communicating with people...face to face,phone and e-mail.

We are trialling a few ipads at work and I gotto say they are great.Saves me a shite load of time. If the company that I work for doesn't buy me one I will buy one myself.

I don't even know what the social networking/twitter/facebook is. What I do know, is that if some client e-mails me when I am in the back of beyond...that has no wi-fi...I can send and receive e-mails when I am sitting in the car.I don't have to wait until I get back to the office etc. It also means that if I want to bugger off to the pub....I can, 'cause my work has been done.

A missed or late replied to e-mail can mean not only missed business, but a lost client. I work in a business where there are close to 400 companies offering the same shite.That's in a city of approx 1.2 million people. If you are not on to it then you are fcuked.

I can remember years ago when people had those big bricks that they used to call mobile phones.My old man used to look at people using them...shake his head and say "bloody posers". That was 20 years ago.Now every body I know has a phone...I bet everybody on the forum has a phone....even you Doc. If my old man was alive today he would call you a poser for having phone...and then probably go on exactly like you have.