On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 11:14 -0500, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Nov 17, 2011, at 6:55 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 17.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Les Mikesell:
<snip> > As for the majority... more than 50% of all phones sold now are smart > phones. Soon everyone, everywhere will have one.
Ah, now I understand: you've drunk the Kool-Aid.
No, NOT everyone will have one. Not everyone *wants* one. Try looking at the surveys that happen every year or two, and something like 2/3rds of older Americans, and a good percentage of younger, only want A PHONE THAT WORKS, so that they can call someone and do this thing called "talk". They don't want to screw around with a phone.
And that's not going to change... unless, as I said yesterday, you, personally, want to spring the money out of your pocket for, say, me to have eye surgery, so I get 15/20 vision, so I can *read* the friggin' email at 4 point type.
---- Clearly you are out of touch with reality here...
http://www.mobilechoices.co.uk/news/older-mobile-users-switch-on-to-smartpho...
From which I quote...
"While a US study found that just 30% of over-55s currently have smartphones, their rate of ownership jumped by 5% in the last three months alone."
Survey source... Nielson
Here's a hint... they have this technology called pinch to zoom which allows you to make everything large enough to compensate for your vision problems.
Craig