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I got myself an iPad mini the other day. Yay for me! Isn’t it exciting to get a new gadget, to have that rush of coolness added to a pointless-feeling-of-accomplishment-of-sorts?! The good thing is that it lasts for about a week at the most. And the bad thing is, that it lasts for a week at the most.
During this time, you are overzealously glowing with the thought of having bought a marvel of modern technology that has made your life so much easier, and of course, better! After this honeymoon period is over, however, you realize that what you have signed-up-for is another piece of furniture to charge, an added chore. Not to mention, the extended stupidity of buying accessories and apps. And then again, you travel with even more stuff than ever before; and of course, your bag was never really meant for one more of anything. Go figure!
I also bought a phone holding stand for the car, this week. You know, those that cling to your glass on the principle of vacuum. This makes it easier for me to view my caller while driving, and to follow directions on Google Maps, for example. However, this is of value for perhaps 10-15% of my travel. For the rest 85%, I am getting late while I put-in and take-out my phone from the damn thing–apart from turning-on Bluetooth on the phone, and turning-on the Bluetooth device, and then charging the two of them by taking out the charging lines for my iPad and iPhone and the soon-to-come-iPod! [I thinks that soon enoughs, I go iMads!] So, as you can clearly see, I am now starting to question the rationale behind my rationale to buy this stand.
So, coming back to these Apple devices of mine. They are beautiful efficient devices, no two ways about it. But somewhere down the line, like a bunch of proud frat kids, they decided to talk only amongst themselves, and to nobody else that existed around! They also require a different variety of proprietary charging pin for each one of them. This means that, at home, I now have a spike guard just for charging purposes. And there we were, thinking as we moved from PC to laptops [to smaller and smaller, more powerful devices] that gone are the days of plugging 5 wires into that god-forsaken thing!
And then, there’s Murphy’s law which dictates that the particular mobile device critical to your requirement will die at the very moment that you need it. And as an addendum, you shall have a charger for everything else on earth, but this particular device!
Clearly, technology makes life simpler.
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