An App too far
Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Yes it's the Carling iphone app. Still no news on a real ale version.

If there is one thing marginally more boring than listening to someone drone on endlessly about the number of apps on their iPhone, it is listening to four iphone users drone on together about how the iPhone has, like, you know completely changed their lives.  I happened to be talking to four iPhone obsessives as the sole non-iphone user and my phone rang.  As I answered my phone, everyone burst into laughter.  ‘A Blackberry????  What a loser!’ ‘Look’ I said, ‘The phone works, I can send and receive emails, manage my appointments, take photographs and clips of film and even navigate with GPS. It’s all I need’.  But to no avail.  They were back sharing their app stories.  ‘Bet your Blackberry can’t do this’, one of them said. It was a motion detector. ‘Look’ he said excitedly ‘I can measure the vibration in the floor – it could be really useful in an earthquake’. I sighed and tried to visualise being somewhere when an earthquake began and whether I would have the presence of mind to put my iphone on the floor to check the reading on the richter scale. Probably not.  I have got nothing against the iPhone.  I just wish their owners stop trying to convert the rest of us……