Apple posts biggest single loss in 10 years

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Oldjohnw
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Re: Apple posts biggest single loss in 10 years

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The worst is when you see couples both glued to their 'phones


Possibly texting each other.
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Oldjohnw wrote:
The worst is when you see couples both glued to their 'phones


Possibly texting each other.

Doing that social media thing whilst studiously avoiding social contact!
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wrangler_rover wrote:My pay as you go 79p phone that I have had for the past year does me just fine.
My £10 top up I put on it 12 months ago still has a few pence left.
I guess it is a matter of horses for courses, I personally do not need instant access to data and although am on Facebook and LinkedIn, use them occasionally and have yet to post anything on them.
What is instagram? I tried twitter once, never again!
I do have an iPhone supplied by my employer but use it for work only.

How did we manage 20 years ago with basic phones?
Looking at how people are now glued to their phones, parents at their children's swimming classes, families eating out, people sitting together in pubs. They appear to be oblivious to anybody and anything around them and might as well be alone in a room with their smartphone, their interactions with those in their company seem to be somewhere between non existant and limited.


So what? It's up to them how they spend their own time.
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Oldjohnw wrote:
The worst is when you see couples both glued to their 'phones


Possibly texting each other.

Imagine the scene:

Blue sky, crystal clear turquoise ocean, white sand, palm trees and a lovely little restaurant on the beach.
Coach pulls up full of tourists who pile out to enjoy their food in paradise and a voice is heard: "they've got free wifi".
For the next hour or so everyone is glued to their phones before piling back on the coach.

I was on that coach.
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The smartphone really is the devil's catnip. I was in the beautiful city of Carcassonne yesterday, watching the people going by. Mostly on their phones, and mostly oblivious to the grandeur surrounding them. We've done it to ourselves...
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Canuk wrote:The smartphone really is the devil's catnip. I was in the beautiful city of Carcassonne yesterday, watching the people going by. Mostly on their phones, and mostly oblivious to the grandeur surrounding them. We've done it to ourselves...

OT...

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Positive thread alert, Plus One!

People are reading and communicating much more now :wink:
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kwackers wrote:
Oldjohnw wrote:
The worst is when you see couples both glued to their 'phones


Possibly texting each other.

Imagine the scene:

Blue sky, crystal clear turquoise ocean, white sand, palm trees and a lovely little restaurant on the beach.
Coach pulls up full of tourists who pile out to enjoy their food in paradise and a voice is heard: "they've got free wifi".
For the next hour or so everyone is glued to their phones before piling back on the coach.

I was on that coach.


were you guilty?
kwackers
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Re: Apple posts biggest single loss in 10 years

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mercalia wrote:were you guilty?

I'm on holiday.
My phone remains turned off until I'm picking my bags up at the airport when I turn it back on and let the taxi driver know they can come and get me.
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