I read the other day in Money Week that someone has estimated that by the end of 2010 more people in the world will have access to a smart phone than will have access to a clean lavatory. It is reading things like this that make you realise that the world is totally mad. I have a mobile phone - is that the same thing as a smart phone? But I don't feel a desperate need to have such a thing. It is convenient to ring people when I am out on the road somewhere but that is all. I certainly would not put it above the possession of a clean lavatory. This last week we have seen people queuing over-night in order to buy the latest complicated phone from Apple. Priced at nearly £400+ this device can operate as a phone, take picture, connect to the internet, etc, etc. What is the point? And those geeks desperate to own one should be certified. And to cap it all, apparently the device doesn't work terribly well as a phone if you hold it wrong. This is like buying the Ferrari that you must not take out in rain. If it gets wet, it stops. Earlier this year Apple brought out a tablet thing which seems to me to combine all the disadvantages of all the things it claims to be. It is a lap-top with limited capacity, it is a mobile phone that is too big, it is gadgetry gone mad. I tried to find a meaningful review of the device now that it has been around for a few months but it seemed that the only people commenting were those who queued to buy the latest over-priced gadget from Steve Jobs' company. Perhaps when 2050 arrives and, as predicted everyone in America works for the government and lives in California, Apple will become a local cottage industry and everybody else can forget about it. Mind you, I think I will be well past caring.
So I will just keep calm and carry on.
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