Wives and tech were probably never meant to go together, maybe partners and tech is more realistic nowadays?
Anyways, said wife gets a Kindle Voyage and shortly afterwards I hear "I can't get this thing to connect to the internet".
Now for those of you that don't know France, what they are really into is numbers, lots of them and very long strings of them too. It's the same with every service provider, be it water, electricity or utilities, they have sufficient capacity in the customer accounts digits to accommodate every living being in the universe. It's the triumph of hope over utility I guess ???
I go to the router and discover the wi-fi key has 26 digits and some of the O's are easily mistaken for zeros as the font needs a magnifying glass wtf! After the tedious business of switching between letters and numbers on the Kindle to enter this nonsense I get it to work. All should be plain sailing from now on, but no, when we go to a friends house with it we have to go through all this again, end of story no? We go back home and have to repeat the wifi code again.
Emails and phone calls fly back and forth to Kindle over this until some nerd sends my wife instructions on how to modify the operating system of the thing, ARE THEY MAD? She flips and demands money back and the junk goes back to Kindle.
I would have thought, with a give away name like VOYAGE, some designer would have thought "People will take this on holiday or to other places, you know like on a voyage like". So let us look at the routers/liveboxes in the likely places we will sell to and people will go to. Is this too simple a concept or am I old fashioned? Evidently France's major Orange system wasn't considered and the Voyage couldn't retain so many numbers so they had to be re- entered every day, hence the nerd giving my wife instructions to re-code the offending article.
If this was the only incidence of clever people being stupid it would not be news, but wife has also returned her IPhone to the suppliers because it wouldn't turn off. battery flat every day etc, etc. Smart phones are not so smart in reality. Hint to Smart phone designers, a little button marked on/off would be really useful, really off, not half off, or off on Saturdays or if there is an R in the month, just simply total on or off, it will be a marketing triumph, believe me. :-*
Anyway, I hope this gives Bluebird something to look forward to on his/her lunchbreak ;D
Best
DaveP
Anyways, said wife gets a Kindle Voyage and shortly afterwards I hear "I can't get this thing to connect to the internet".
Now for those of you that don't know France, what they are really into is numbers, lots of them and very long strings of them too. It's the same with every service provider, be it water, electricity or utilities, they have sufficient capacity in the customer accounts digits to accommodate every living being in the universe. It's the triumph of hope over utility I guess ???
I go to the router and discover the wi-fi key has 26 digits and some of the O's are easily mistaken for zeros as the font needs a magnifying glass wtf! After the tedious business of switching between letters and numbers on the Kindle to enter this nonsense I get it to work. All should be plain sailing from now on, but no, when we go to a friends house with it we have to go through all this again, end of story no? We go back home and have to repeat the wifi code again.
Emails and phone calls fly back and forth to Kindle over this until some nerd sends my wife instructions on how to modify the operating system of the thing, ARE THEY MAD? She flips and demands money back and the junk goes back to Kindle.
I would have thought, with a give away name like VOYAGE, some designer would have thought "People will take this on holiday or to other places, you know like on a voyage like". So let us look at the routers/liveboxes in the likely places we will sell to and people will go to. Is this too simple a concept or am I old fashioned? Evidently France's major Orange system wasn't considered and the Voyage couldn't retain so many numbers so they had to be re- entered every day, hence the nerd giving my wife instructions to re-code the offending article.
If this was the only incidence of clever people being stupid it would not be news, but wife has also returned her IPhone to the suppliers because it wouldn't turn off. battery flat every day etc, etc. Smart phones are not so smart in reality. Hint to Smart phone designers, a little button marked on/off would be really useful, really off, not half off, or off on Saturdays or if there is an R in the month, just simply total on or off, it will be a marketing triumph, believe me. :-*
Anyway, I hope this gives Bluebird something to look forward to on his/her lunchbreak ;D
Best
DaveP
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