Why is it that even though we have something, and that something works just fine to the point that we couldn’t possibly use all of it’s capabilities in one day,” we feel the need to buy it all over again, just with more features?
I got a new phone yesterday, an upgrade from my fake smart phone to a phone so smart it calls me an idiot every time I press the wrong button. I got one of Verizon’s many answers to the iPhone, a Droid2. While at the lovely Verizon store, the sales rep tried to get me to buy a Droid X by extolling it’s many virtues such as an on screen keyboard, HD Video recording, and 8.0 megapixle camera.
I blinked at her, and said something unintelligible about needing a physical keyboard, which she scoffed at and dragged me over to try out the new and imporved, HD-ready DroidX. It really is an impressive little thing. Top heavy, because of the camera, thin enough to loose between the seat and console of your car, and indeed has the most inane and impossible to work onscreen keyboard on the market.
After watching me use the side of one of my pinky’s to painstakingly enter a few test words, she conceded that maybe the keyboard was a better option for me. And then conned me out of over $100 worth of accessories.
Fun times. But I got a new phone! How cool is that?
*given that we allot time to sleep, shit and eat, that is.
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