Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[pokerfan]

1 billion smartphone users can't be wrong ?

According to predictions there will be 2 billion smartphones in use by 2015.

[tikay]

1 billion smartphone users can't be wrong ?

According to predictions there will be 2 billion smartphones in use by 2015.

The point is, how long have smartphones been around? And there are now a billion of us on them. The speed of change these days is mind-boggling.

Walk along the Rio corridor, or the Tables in the Cardroom, & almost everyone is busy, tap tap tapping away at their smartphone things.

When I am at home, on my own, watching sport on TV, or playing a bit of Online Poker, I HAVE to have the ippy on too, to see what's what. 

What did we all do pre-smartphones? Talk to each other, Heaven forbid?

I never go anywhere without my ippy these days, it is my constant companion & comfort cloth. 2 years ago I did not know what an ippy was.

The world is changing so, so fast.  

[tikay]

I became a bit paranoid for a while that I had become addicted to my mobile phone, & it bothered me, so I managed to shake the addiction, & now I often leave it at home, or turned off. Beaten the addiction, yay - only to find I'm now addicted to my ippy.

Think I need to cure that addiction now.

I'm also addicted to the internet, I get uncomfortable if I don't have access for even short periods.

Think I need to get out more.

Lack of balance makes us so boring.

[cambridgealex]

I became a bit paranoid for a while that I had become addicted to my mobile phone, & it bothered me, so I managed to shake the addiction, & now I often leave it at home, or turned off. Beaten the addiction, yay - only to find I'm now addicted to my ippy.

Think I need to cure that addiction now.

I'm also addicted to the internet, I get uncomfortable if I don't have access for even short periods.

Think I need to get out more.

Lack of balance makes us so boring.

Feel exactly the same.

[Jon MW]

There's an app for that

It seems those words are trademarked, by Apple, & have been since 2010.

"Apps" have been around for just 5 years. In that time, 50 billion have been downloaded, & there are 900,000 of them available in the Apple App Store, whatever that is.

Whole businesses now rely totally on Apps.

To an Online Gaming Business, for example, (think any of the UK Online bookmakers) getting an App approved by Apple, & in their "store" is crucial, & without it, the business dies. Literally.

The whole meaning of the word - application  or app - has changed, too. All in 5 short years.

I still don't even know what an App is, how they work, what they do, or why I need one. I have two (Sky Go, & Wm Hill Bookmkers) but I have no idea why.

You can even use an App (I gather) to find the name of a tune you can't remember.  

Jeez, the internet changes the world so fast.

Think I'll manage without, tyvm.

That flight path program you use on the mobile Skyscanner?  That's an App.

Tweetdeck, App.

Hootsuite, App.

I'm sure you use half a dozen and don't even know it.


What I do hate is when large companies try and trademark common English or phrases that have been in use for many years or completely generic.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23250240

Yes, but when you go to, say......

http://uk.flightaware.com/

You do not HAVE to download their App, you can still use it "conventionally".

So why the need for an App?

I don't really know all the technicalities, I only read it somewhere else, so others might 'correct' this - but it said originally the iPhone had app's because it handled the internet so badly that almost any web page had difficulty loading.  This is borne out by the fact that a lot of the first apps were literally just like bookmarks to a website, on android this didn't make any sense but on iPhone it did.

Since then other people outside of Apple have worked out that designing some programme's that only work on phone's can be done more efficiently than adapting an existing computer programme, so they're called apps and they have a half-way sensible reason to exist - but they're just called apps instead of programme's; which is what they would have been called if Apple hadn't invented the word app.

[Tal]

A good friends of mine had recommended Blonde Poker to me for a while. We'd have the same conversation each time:

"You should join. You'd love it"
"I've no doubt. The problem is, when it comes to these things, I have an addictive personality and I'll be on it all the time."

He'd just laugh, as though I were making a tongue-in-cheek comment.

Every now and then, I remind him of what he did, usually with the words "I warned you!"

[tikay]

A good friends of mine had recommended Blonde Poker to me for a while. We'd have the same conversation each time:

"You should join. You'd love it"
"I've no doubt. The problem is, when it comes to these things, I have an addictive personality and I'll be on it all the time."

He'd just laugh, as though I were making a tongue-in-cheek comment.

Every now and then, I remind him of what he did, usually with the words "I warned you!"

Another problem I have, too!

[Tal]

A good friends of mine had recommended Blonde Poker to me for a while. We'd have the same conversation each time:

"You should join. You'd love it"
"I've no doubt. The problem is, when it comes to these things, I have an addictive personality and I'll be on it all the time."

He'd just laugh, as though I were making a tongue-in-cheek comment.

Every now and then, I remind him of what he did, usually with the words "I warned you!"

Another problem I have, too!

Lol thanks very much!

[tikay]

A good friends of mine had recommended Blonde Poker to me for a while. We'd have the same conversation each time:

"You should join. You'd love it"
"I've no doubt. The problem is, when it comes to these things, I have an addictive personality and I'll be on it all the time."

He'd just laugh, as though I were making a tongue-in-cheek comment.

Every now and then, I remind him of what he did, usually with the words "I warned you!"

Another problem I have, too!

Lol thanks very much!

Like so many things, every so often, we need to adjust our balance, to keep the addictions under control.

I can manage it with blonde, I sort of "fast" every now & then, ditto my 'phone, but the ippy is really dominating me. Only reading keeps me off it, & I've now upped my daily reading time (books) to 2 hours minimum, which has been win-win really. The problem is, after I read a good book, I want to tell people about it. And off we go again.

If given the choice of.....

Internet access

i-Pad

Mobile 'phone

blonde

Books

I'd choose books every time. I think. I hope.....

[RED-DOG]

See. You can say iPad.

"I love my ippy" makes you sound like a 60s East End schoolgirl.

[the sicilian]

Got my first 'mobile phone' in 1987 whilst working in the city... i say mobile it was like the one pictured and it was insisted i had it.... remember having one of the first motorola brick phones it cost me someting like £1200 circa 1989-1990

TBH i can't remember how i coped without a mobile of some description....

[david3103]

Got my first 'mobile phone' in 1987 whilst working in the city... i say mobile it was like the one pictured and it was insisted i had it.... remember having one of the first motorola brick phones it cost me someting like £1200 circa 1989-1990

TBH i can't remember how i coped without a mobile of some description....

How we laughed

[Karabiner]

I used to be an 'ippy.

[MANTIS01]

I remember life without mobile phones and tbh I thought it was much better. When I left work my time was my own, I could hit the golf course or have a meal with friends and nobody could reach me. Thinking back that was absolute bliss. These days the biggest change for me as a manager is employers and staff EXPECT you to be contactable 24/7. So a) if there's a problem at work and staff phone it would be slack not to answer, but more telling is b) if I didn't answer my boss would find it unacceptable.

Before mobile phones my obligation in a job was 40hrs per week and now my obligation is 168hrs per week for the same money in relative terms. There have been countless times I've been called into work for emergencies or disturbed during leisure time to sort out problems and that is just a standard expectation when you're responsible for a business. That change has just crept up on us and become a way of life and it really is a major change. If you got a new job and said you don't have a mobile phone employers would be like wtf??

[david3103]

I remember life without mobile phones and tbh I thought it was much better. When I left work my time was my own, I could hit the golf course or have a meal with friends and nobody could reach me. Thinking back that was absolute bliss. These days the biggest change for me as a manager is employers and staff EXPECT you to be contactable 24/7. So a) if there's a problem at work and staff phone it would be slack not to answer, but more telling is b) if I didn't answer my boss would find it unacceptable.

Before mobile phones my obligation in a job was 40hrs per week and now my obligation is 168hrs per week for the same money in relative terms. There have been countless times I've been called into work for emergencies or disturbed during leisure time to sort out problems and that is just a standard expectation when you're responsible for a business. That change has just crept up on us and become a way of life and it really is a major change. If you got a new job and said you don't have a mobile phone employers would be like wtf??

http://www.businessballs.com/delegation.htm