These are the kind of relatively trivial problems I had to deal with every day for twenty years of IT support. Things are worse today.
1. Printers used to only send one error message “Out of Paper”. Now they send notifications to your screen when all you did was turn it on.
2. My cell phone has expensive wireless earbuds that, unknown to me, distorted my voice for six months. I finally qualified for replacements which were lost in shipping.
3. I use my computer as my entertainment system. It sits across the room. Whenever I close iTunes (which I NEVER use to play DVDs) it ejects the disc. I have to walk across the room because iTunes thinks this is a feature.
4. Laptop batteries can be refilled by an mail order service cheaper than buying a new one.
5. My camera has over a hundred functions and only a ten-page manual, which is not enough. My other camera has over a hundred functions and a completely different menu structure and feature set.
6. “Universal” remotes were never really universal. You have to keep the original remotes in order to program some of the features, when the “universal” remote dies.
7. PDAs had only a niche usefulness and went obsolete quickly.
After dealing with all these problems for so long, I thought my life would be simpler when I retired. However, my phone assistant is buggy, all the apps are starting to say my “last generation” iPod Touch is obsolete, I have to turn off my tablet or it responds when I talk to my phone, my professional-photographer-standard monitors don’t have remote controls, it took a year to figure out the best telephoto stabilization setting for my camera …
These are the kind of relatively trivial problems I had to deal with every day for twenty years of IT support. Things are worse today.
1. Printers used to only send one error message “Out of Paper”. Now they send notifications to your screen when all you did was turn it on.
2. My cell phone has expensive wireless earbuds that, unknown to me, distorted my voice for six months. I finally qualified for replacements which were lost in shipping.
3. I use my computer as my entertainment system. It sits across the room. Whenever I close iTunes (which I NEVER use to play DVDs) it ejects the disc. I have to walk across the room because iTunes thinks this is a feature.
4. Laptop batteries can be refilled by an mail order service cheaper than buying a new one.
5. My camera has over a hundred functions and only a ten-page manual, which is not enough. My other camera has over a hundred functions and a completely different menu structure and feature set.
6. “Universal” remotes were never really universal. You have to keep the original remotes in order to program some of the features, when the “universal” remote dies.
7. PDAs had only a niche usefulness and went obsolete quickly.
After dealing with all these problems for so long, I thought my life would be simpler when I retired. However, my phone assistant is buggy, all the apps are starting to say my “last generation” iPod Touch is obsolete, I have to turn off my tablet or it responds when I talk to my phone, my professional-photographer-standard monitors don’t have remote controls, it took a year to figure out the best telephoto stabilization setting for my camera …