My Life With an iPhone

Technology
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You jest of course.

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No? Waiting on a line for people asking questions that would take them a few minutes of research isn’t what I consider efficient use of anyone’s time.

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I don’t any of the few people that seem to keep survivefrance alive.

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I struggle to see why this should be an issue. I keep some cash in my wallet for emergencies but, for everything else, it’s contactless. Quick, pain free and no need to handle coins and notes that have been through who knows how many filthy hands.

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Interesting, that’s not how I see it. At any given time during the day there are typically between 40 to 50 people reading this forum. Any post will typically receive at least one reply within minutes. The gite forum I used to belong to (and loved) was killed off by Facebook. Typically only 1 or 2 would be online and one could wait days (or never!) for a reply.

Survive France isn’t just alive it’s thriving.

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Bloody Apple fan boys, you are all the same :joy:

The first smart phone was the IBM personal communicator.

My first PDA smart phone was not apple, I was having dinner with a friend who worked for previously Sir Clive Sinclair, showed him my phone, he showed me his design for a smart phone he designed 5 years earlier. Unfortunately Sir Clive went down the early EV route so did not take up his design (silly man!) .

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Sadly I am opposite to you and this is because.

No matter what age we are, the world will continue to evolve and it won’t stop and let you get off the bus just because. I agree that living the rural life on France saw we do it’s probably about the nearest we can get so long as we navigate the French beurocratic minefield very carefully and don’t rock the boat.

So that said, none of us can just, stand still, and let life pass us by. Only if your one voice has a billion followers might you just about be heard above the din of Donal Trump and co.

So good luck top you.

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Now go and have a lay down Brian it sounds like you need one.

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When I fairs joined Survive France in 2013, the number of threads and posts where a lot more than they are now. Clearly the stalwarts continue. But here we are once again getting away from what this thread was about. Which I why I stopped using it years ago and only came back because of a facebook link. Bonne Courage.

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While the Apple iPhone X (2017) is famously known for introducing secure 3D facial recognition (Face ID) to the mainstream, it was not the first smartphone to use facial recognition technology.

Here are the key details regarding the “first” facial recognition phones:

  • Earliest Technology (2005): The “OKAO Vision Face Recognition Sensor” by OMRON Corporation was announced as the world’s first, designed for use in mobile devices as early as 2005.

  • Early Android Implementation (2011/2012): Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” introduced “Face Unlock” as a native feature, which appeared on devices like the Samsung

Apple also didn’t invent the iPod either they pinched the idea and design from my friend Kane Kramer.

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Wasn’t apple the first smart phone without a keypad?

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I suspect that most consumer technology can be described as “a solution looking for a problem”. It “solves” the problem in a way that brings most profit to the company selling the “solution”, rather than starting with the problem and working out how it might be solved.

Those of us who are comfortable with tech, and especially those of us who have not known a world without mobile phones and computers (not many on SF), struggle to understand why someone might just prefer not to want to use it.

Most of the tech we have is far more capable and complex (and therefore expensive) than we need.

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But it was just you that lead us away from the thread, so to get back to it, I appreciate that you are concerned at my refusal to double up on electronic equipment that I don’t find any other use for and which, though not exactly expensive, is nevertheless some 8 times more expensive than my chosen path for continued existence.

I have found my preferred defence, and it has to be said that I did give it a fair go rather than dismissing it out of hand, so can you not find, during your brief reunion here, something to be happy about in that? :joy:

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I have found that friends with Apple phones always seem to have problems. Crapple I call it. Also you will find small businesses will prefer cash for the proverbial cup of coffee due to the costs charged using cards or other devices.

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It typically costs more to handle cash than it does to take a card payment, certainly in the UK and EU.

The biggest supporters of cash are typically tax dodgers and conspiracy theorists.

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:rofl: Our many local events prefer cash to cards but accounting is strict and there’s no conspiracy. :rofl:

and no-one has fallen ill from handling the stuff (not so far anyway…)

EDIT: Our mobile-butcher takes cards but they don’t always work due to poor signal… so it’s cash or cheques…

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That’s simply not true.

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Also there was the Nokia 7710. Note that it had rounded corners :thinking:

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Don’t mention Crypto…….but big institutions handle Crypto…….no target the little people’s purses and set their minds to believe it will all be better when it’s all digital.

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No. See my answer above. It also wasn’t the first with rounded corners, which Apple sued Samsung for in a long running legal saga.

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