Location, location, location.
So, sometimes mobile — is actually, really mobile.
ON: The Fleeting Life of Apps.
So, i felt like there are ways that we can drum up personality in our lives, whether that was on the side of work (juggling married life), or just plain work (like singles), there is connectivity in our actual lives, not just online.
Today, mobile phone applications are so normal, it’s yawn.
But, at the time it all started, mobile phones hosted “shortcuts to URLs as small bookmarks” also known as these cute things as apps.
But…. as we know, we don’t really navigate sites, on the m.(dot)/pages or a mobile protocol - becuase it wasn’t as safe as the web versions. So data heavy bits would be needing a higher bandwidth, and roaming rates, and it was not a dream but more a nightmare, to castaways and true-blue mobizens (mobile netizens).
So, since the age of (drum roll) THE MOBILE APP LIBRARY, of the 2020 WWD ios update wonder, didn’t just help the nightmare of our contact list syncs, across ALL devices and iPhone versions or even across iCloud (syncing of all our data, since the invention and launch & 100% apple-device uptake of all iCloud users) - it happened to be the killer-APP file chaos navigator, to capp all software wonders by far.
ON: Tuesdays.
Why do i mention this super TBT ancientness, it’s not even a Thursday?! Ok, it’s a Tuesday.
(A technicality that can’t be avoided.)
Since, i have moved - rather like a total mobile warrior with all her luggages - not after the MWC’s (mobile world congress’): “go and be mobile” ungodly hour taglines, but more in finding actual workspace, despite “all the mobility capacity”.
But, since we are not about the moving history lessons (anymore), we would confess nothing but the pictures we took, the time we killed, the super footprints we left behind, we sometimes look back at the paths we didn’t take- or swapped for its (immediate, or whatever was better) acceptably appropriate alternative.
ON: Living La Vida Local.
Is what the Mobile-Dream is about. But, is it really?
There used to be a time where having a mobile writing gadget: electric typewriter, laptop, was more de rigeur than a mobile phone counterpart warring on your eyesight with its tiny screen and even tinier https field for the m.dot page surfers, and a keyboard-assisted iPad, posing as a laptop - as the laughable device at any cafe posing as an adult speak-and-spell scribe tribe.
But, that was ages since the iPad (2nd gen, and onwards) is actually THE device to have, since the App world has taken off, jettisoned all m.dot pages, and we could no longer hold out the special thumbing through app-library-pages and the magic to confirming-sms nightmare of multi-triangulation-of-device-based oAuthers everywhere.
Don’t get me wrong, i am thrilled beyond belief, but think that maybe, we should continue to use all ten fingers - and then, the thrilling pen to help us imagine the world in colour a bit more - on a proper qwerty-keyboard, rather than just thumbs, please.
It’s never an either — or, but it’s never a lose-lose to actually heed a bit of feedback, here and there.
(Just saying.)
