Men don’t like appliances. We want things that can do lots of different things, that we can tweak and fiddle with, and then argue with each other about which one is better.
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It's true. We like things with many buttons and power that can be expressed in numbers, so we can impress our friends.
"Man, my new laptop has a 200-gigabyte hard disk!"
"Oh. Got it used, did you?"
My cell phone requirements used to be "can I make a call on it?".
ReplyDeleteI then started commuting by mass transit, and we lost a phone in the household. At that point I got one more commute friendly, i.e. music player, qwerty keypad for mail and text, and a few games. It also has GPS.
Having one little brick in my pocket that can do all that seems like a bonus. I know you can get portable GPS's and mp3 players etc, but then I need 6 pockets. Also, tell me this, I use a GPS about 10 days a year. The phones GPS cost $2 for a 24 hour usage, or $10 for a month. How many years can I use it before I meet the cost of a cheap portable, and does the portable get traffic and update the maps autonomously?
Still I want a toaster that makes toast, and I finally agree a separate washer and dryer is good for larger volume, but an all in one is great for load and go, you don't have to come back every 30 minutes to do the next thing.
Have you hear of Brian Regan. He's a comedian, who does a funny bit on refrigerators.
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Actually, I prefer things that do one or two things well rather than a multitude of things poorly. All I really want out of my cell phone is for it to be a phone. I have no idea how to use most of its features and have to constantly refer to the manual to do anything else with it. I'm an IT person so I work with new technology all the time. I'm generally unimpressed with most of it.
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