The problem isn’t Sysco. As mentioned above the problem is the consumer. People will continue to pay for crap and as long as they continue to pay for it that’s what they’ll get. We vote with our wallets.
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The problem isn’t Sysco. As mentioned above the problem is the consumer. People will continue to pay for crap and as long as they continue to pay for it that’s what they’ll get. We vote with our wallets.
Wait, so you’re suggesting you’d rather carry your phone with you at the airport than your PC?
Now what kind of nonsense is that?
You're probably closer to the usage model the thing is designed for. I never said that they can't do a bunch of stuff, I just said that they can't do it well. I find the tiny size, brain dead OS, and the touchscreen interface to be horrid - I don't find that "convenient" - convenience is the false God of our day - there is ALWAYS a price for "convenience", and in this case - and many others for that matter - its a price I'm not willing to pay. I don't see a phone saving much of my time, I'd just be irritated at how crippled the thing is. If they're "not designed to do that", what good is it? Its pointless. I bought a cheap tablet years back to see what all the hubbub was about. It was pretty good to watch Hickok45 videos with, but a pain to do emails with, a nuisance on the web, blah, blah, blah.
Do keep in mind that I'm the cheapest bastard on the planet, I avoid subscription services like the plague - I only have one (Kindle unlimited) because I'm a voracious reader and the subscription is cheaper than buying all those books. I seldom buy music, I have a huge CD collection accumulated over many years, mostly purchased for a couple or three dollars each. Then there's YooToob which is free.
I read this: The smartphone, shaped in part by marketing departments, simply gives people more of what they already wanted,such as news and social media. That's probably why I don't see the point of the thing, I don't want news and "social media"! I avoid the news like the plague, and "social media" (defined as facefuck, TWITter, and similar) has never held any interest for me.
DSLRs, and their more modern counterparts, the "Mirrorless" cameras, have physically larger sensors than any smartphone, which translates to better image quality under the same conditions. But more importantly, they have interchangeable lenses. Smartphone cameras do remarkably well, form factor not withstanding, and are a large part of their price.
Amazingly, I've never needed to use any kind of computational device at the airport...
Lot's of things it can do that make the travel experience better.
It’s a good cure for boredom, that’s for sure. I wonder what people used to do on the toilet before phones
It’s a good cure for boredom, that’s for sure. I wonder what people used to do on the toilet before phones
I'm thinking more of baggage loaded on plane notifications, club access pass, instant notifications of gate changes, instant notification of which baggage carousel you need to go to ( I don't need to hunt down the board) amongst other things.
I'd rather use something designed for the task - I can't imagine the PITA factor of doing anything like this with a tiny touchscreen. Yuk! Just because you "can", doesn't mean you "should" or that its optimal, "convenient" or easy.
To be clear, I don't care what other people do. They want to deal with this crippled thing, have at it. Just don't ask me to participate. I've had a pretty darn good life thus far, and much of that goodness comes from my refusal to participate in stupidity. I wish I had a wooden nickel for every-time someone else's Gods-Damned smartphone impacted my life negatively. An inconvenience to the user, AND everyone around him. But what just rusts my zills is the ever increasing societal EXPECTATION that I have one. People want me to be inconvenienced and pay, pay, pay, pay, PAY for this phucking thing? I have no problem whatsoever throwing their expectations back into their faces, most recently at Home Depot when I went there to rent a truck and they EXPECTED me to have a PHOOOOOONNE in order to pass THEIR online vetting system.You want to vet me? You provide the equipment, DO NOT expect me to cater to your shortsightedness. I went elsewhere - now the PHOOOOOONNE cost them a customer.
The worldwide monetary and societal costs of these things and catering to them is massive - but I have my infamous smartphone rant for that. For those who have yet to see it, or haven't seen it recently, here it is:
https://www.doubleveil.net/phoooooonne.htm - but be forewarned, it is a RANT, not a scholarly article.
I'm at the airport to get on a plane, or maybe eat something. That's it. I don't need to have to fiddle with a crippled toy to do so - and I wish everyone else would leave theirs at home. Getting on the plane is a pain in the ass to start with, and even more so when half the idiots are using their smartphones to hold their boarding pass. They have to stop, get it scanned (assuming they have it ready, many times they do not) holding up the entire line for the sake of their PHOOOOOONNE. I just hand the gate agent my piece of paper and walk onto the plane without even stopping in most cases. Far more "conVEEEEEEEEEEEENient".
Another aspect that isn't talked about much outside of computer geek circles: "Single point of failure". If somebody's precious device dies, is stolen, or the battery just goes flat, they *can* be in a world of hurt - esp. when traveling. Since I don't participate, it doesn't affect me.
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Because nobody is trying to use a phone to do design work, so it's not a problem.
Tablets suck. They are an attempt to compromise between a phone and a computer, and do none of it right, or well.
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They also scan your boarding pass lol, not just the people with phones. If they don't have it up, why would you blame it on the phone? That is on them, not their phone.
way too long to read but I skimmed it, if you're not 'paying $35/month', may I gather you somehow get cell service and internet service for free?
I think it's just dawned on me what the problem here is. You seem to be under two misconceptions.
One, price. I haven't spent $1,000 on 4 iPhones combined that, when this newest one dies, will span close to 15 years of use, your cost of use arguments are silly.
Two, and far more important, you seem to be under the impression that everyone that uses a smartphone has declared that it performs every one of its functions better than any other device on the planet. I've never heard anyone, except you, make that claim of smartphone users.
You've created a fallacy in your head that you use in an odd attempt to argue about the value of a smartphone.
I've suggested this to you before & it went right over your head, but I'll repeat it in hopes that it sinks in:
My phone makes a phone call as good as any phone I’ve ever used, it gets me to every destination I’ve ever input while also steering me around accidents, road closures, and radar, it sends an email when I hit the ‘send’ button, it receives an email when someone else hits their send button, it plays the song I want to hear, or mixes it up & surprises me, at my option, if I hear a song on the radio & I want to know what it is, it tells me, it takes better quality photos and videos than I need, it answers every question asked of it by voice or typed into the search bar, it searches the WWW in a nanosecond and delivers what I need at the moment I need it as good as my very expensive office computer and on, and on, and on, and on, and on ad nauseum.
Put in a bite sized form, I don't need it to be the best at every function, I need it to do what I want it to do all contained in one item that's the size of a pack of Marlboros so I don't have to walk around like this guy:
I do blame it on the phone, such inconsideration is endemic in the "smartphone culture". I know they scan my boarding pass - but I don't have to stop (usually) while they do so. I hand it to the agent and keep right on going.
You seem to find this amusing - but the fact of the matter is 1) all those devices were a lot nicer than a smartphone, and 2) I don't carry, nor need 90% of what's in that picture.
The last time we flew, I knew my bags were on the plane with me. One other time I saw they were loaded on the next plane and knew before I landed to go to a different bag claim and to wait. I could track the plane to see how far behind it was from ours.
Oh and for the thread, airport food is the perfect representation of overpriced crap with horrible service. The whole flying experience is garbage now.
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Then that's where we differ - I don't want to be subjected to the pain in the ass these things are. I do indeed want everything to be the best that I can afford (at least), and I don't want to be subjected to these broken toys. I call BS on "it searches the WWW in a nanosecond and delivers what I need at the moment I need it as good as my very expensive office computer" - it does nothing of the sort. You can't type it your search without the pain in the ass of a micro-sized touchscreen "keyboard", and when the info is displayed, its on a tiny screen that sucks. I don't think you get that point.
What about when someone has to dig a paper boarding pass out of their backpack. Now do we hate paper
We are on an old Sprint plan from back when Jesus rode his dinosour to Sunday school. They folded and are Tmobile. The last time we called for something the rep on the phone was surprised at our 28 year old grandfathered in family plan.
I guess we get a senior discount because he couldn't believe how little our 4 phone plan cost.
No idea how androids work but with an iPhone. Once you have the ticket loaded in your wallet, you tap it from the lock screen without unlocking your phone to open your boarding pass. It’s less than a second to go straight to the ticket.
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