Actually, I think you're wrong on that. I suspect most people spend more time using their phone for non-talking purposes like texting, social media, playing games, watching videos, and the like.
I have no hard data for this, just observations of my nieces and nephews and younger colleagues at work.
]]>I know about the overland. A friend was involved in early such systems. As long as you have a reasonable right of way it isn't all that hard.
It's long and/or deep undersea routes that I wonder about. I'd love to see more about the repair systems for such.
]]>Greetings, Mr. Whitroth! Congratulations, you emerged from the coma without lasting effects. I am afraid however, you have some adjustments to make. First, do you recall the recently elected Senator from Illinois named Barak Obama?
Polling 2,017 smartphone owners in the UK, Mobiles.co.uk found that 27% hadn’t made a phone call in more than a week, and 5% admitted to never making or accepting a call. Over six in ten (63%) respondents said they’d only answer the phone if they know the caller, and a third said they’d always reject a call if they weren’t expecting it.
So, if we’re not using our mobile phones to call people, just what are we doing with them? The study unearthed the top 10 daily uses for smartphones:
Texting (88% use this) Email (70%) Facebook (62%) Camera (61%) Reading news (58%) Online shopping (56%) Checking the weather (54%) WhatsApp (51%) Banking (45%) Watching videos on YouTube (42%)As you can see, phone calls didn’t even make the top ten. It actually came in at number 11, with only 41% of people regularly using the feature.
]]>How you going to do that without making us as bad as they are?
]]>I dunno. The only one I've heard that "silly idea" coming from is you. The U.S. is as competitive/cooperative in software development as is anyone else.
]]>Sure, so how long do you think it would take the US to write the entire software stack for a smartphone, using only US resources?
I suggested that even making the attempt was a fools errand, but apparently "no-one disagrees" means you think it's a straightforward project? From my point of view it's been a very, very long time since the US wrote their own software, these days it's all multinational teams because that's cheaper and more effective than trying to have round the clock development within the US. I don't think that retreating to the US would triple development calendar time, but I don't think it would be free either (assuming you did indeed run three shifts per project - obviously if you stick to office hours in Hawai'i and Bosnywash that's going to hurt. Brook's Law still applies, the shift hack mitigates it rather than eliminating it).
]]>Nice "blame the victim" there.
]]>Oh, and btw, since I retired, the ache in the base of both thumbs is less, in spite of all the solitaire and writing. Dunno... but if you think I want to text with that problem I already have....
As I've noted, virtual keyboards are a horrible kludge.
]]>It was great. My first shiny toy purchase. Totally pointless but cool.
]]>I live in Michigan - the legislature just shut down for a few days due to armed right wing groups threatening them.
]]>This cynical non-American bets "no charges", or "no charges that stick".
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