Late last summer, I was introduced to a new special someone. I wasn’t looking to meet this new muse, it all just kind of happened.We met at an Apple product announcement in Cupertino, Calif. She was helpful, smart and even funny, cracking sarcastic jokes and making me laugh. What more could a guy ask for?Since then, we have had some major communication issues. She frequently misunderstands what I’m saying. Sometimes she is just unavailable. Often, she responds with the same, repetitive statement.Her name is Siri.
At first, Siri, the voice-activated digital assistant on Apple iPhones, seemed a little too good to be true. Siri lured me into a relationship promising to help me set up appointments, to gently wake me in the morning for work, and to give me the ability to text someone while I was driving.
It didn’t work out that way. “There’s something wrong, and I can’t answer your questions right now. Please try again in a little while,” Siri will say when I ask something. Or: “I’m really sorry about this, but I can’t take any requests right now. Please try again in a little while.”She is always polite. But I’m starting to suspect that “I’m really sorry” is just something Siri says to shut me up.
we have become myself included addicted to those proverbial "shinny thing's". we are lazy, we yearn for that which makes it easier, but is it really easier or more of Svengali instrument of our own undoing?
we love what it brings we love even more when we think we are handling the "new stuff", but in reality we are being handled.
those who can't afford these shinny things are the one's who really profit, they don't have the heartbreak of when it goes down and repair is close yet far enough away from another one repair or purchase are both out of reach.
we are being concentrated on like Bush's " you can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the one's you want to concentrate on".
they know what features for the next new thing that will suck us in. we are paying to be their guinea pigs, with no residuals, how smart of them is that, or how under informed are we, the info they put out is bait, and like good little consumer's we bite. they are collusive with other's to have our histories and purchasing habits to better lure us with our money.
only defense is sense, let you situation dictate whether you can afford, really need, to what benefit. they are using us against us, who knew, they knew.
