Those unfortunate enough to have strayed within range of one of my intemperate expostulations on the subject of Apple Inc (a tester of which may be sampled here and here) will be well aware that – even though I have the greatest respect for many of the design elements evident in their product line – I really don’t much care for the ‘richest company in all the world‘ at all. I guess that their ethos explains just how they came to be so fabulously wealthy, but that don’t mean that it’s necessarily a good thing… any more so than are tabloid newspapers, reality TV shows, throwing Christians to the Lions or the ‘spectacle’ of the guillotine!…
See what I mean by ‘intemperate’?
Soooooo…..
I might at some point have waxed rather more lyrical on the subject of the splendid Galaxy Note – which device has seen me across the Atlantic and back safely and sanely over the last few tempestuous years. In my mind’s eye I pictured this excellent gizmo travelling once more across the pond this summer, to forge a new partnership with some fresh-faced Canadian telecommunications giant.
Alas it was not to be. Toward the end of last week the beautiful and capacious AMOLED screen suddenly and without warning died completely. Efforts both on my part and of the technical whizz-kids that I employ proved unable to restore it to life. It is – sadly – no more.
A number of pardoxical perceptions flashed across my mind:
- I did not want to do anything that would extend my mobile contract in the UK beyond the summer – for obvious reasons
- I really should wait until we get to BC before signing up to a new deal and replacing the handset
- I really cannot be without a mobile phone right now – as things hot up on the emigration front
Now – one of the advantages of working in IT and being responsible for the School’s phones is that there are usually a selection of recently ‘retired’ handsets lying around. With luck one of them might take my SIM and get me back on the air. Unfortunately – just at the moment there didn’t seem to be much choice…
OK – you see where this is going. The only phone available to tide me over until we leave for Canadian shores was made by a company named after a fruit and starts with an ‘i’!
Bah!
Tags: Apple, Technology
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Come to the dark side….
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It’s so tiny! With my ancient eyes I can hardly read the thing…..
X
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You may already know this, but if you turn it sideways, the writing gets bigger… X
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Ho ho… I started with it sideways!
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When does your current contract run out?
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Hi Brian
How are things?
I believe that my contract runs out in November.
Could be worse!
Best wishes
Andy
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Hi Andy,
Things are, I suppose, fair to middling but hey ho. At the moment also very noisy and dusty. Downstairs loo going into one of our outside store rooms plus kitchen space being extended into the other – various bits of wall missing and new bits of wall going up etc.
The only reason I mentioned the contract is that when my last fixed term contract expired, I was put onto a 30 day rolling contract. It made switching to a different provider easy and with minimal cost. Virgin Mobile do some cheap deals on pay monthly SIMs and basic phones and swapping my number over from Orange to them was painless. Just a thought if you could have got out of your current commitment easily.
Anyway, best wishes to all.
Cheers,
Brian-
Hi Brian
Good to be getting things done – even if noisy and dusty in the process. Think how good it will be when your place finally matches your vision of it. We are looking forward to having a place that we can make our own again…
Thanks for the info re: mobile contracts. Sadly I will have to go on paying for mine for a short while after leaving. That wasn’t very well planned – was it?
Best wishes
Andy
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