Todays Modern Technology.

[padi56]

My microwave has a few features I do not use, my VCR and mobile phone a few dozen, my PC keyboard a few hundred, and Windows XP a few thousand, yet I do not buy state of the art, cutting edge, latest must have technology, I buy medium range products which to my senior citizen's mind hopes it can cope with.

Why of why are things so bloody complicated. when I stay at a hotel with remote control air-con I am totally buggered, new TV remote controls are a foreign land to me, I have yet to master the remote control of the VCR, which is now so old that most of the lettering has worn off the hand-set.

Why cannot manufacturers make a range designed for old codgers I ask myself.Think clue is highlighted old codgers like me (and it has to be said) are not any-body's target market, because we don't replace our 'stuff' often enough for them to wring the maximum profit out of us.

My son recently showed me his latest mobile phone. To describe all its facilities took about half an hour. Finally, in desperation, I asked, "Does it make phone calls?"The look I received was (almost) worth the preceding bloody 30 minutes!

My own mobile phone, purchased about five - six years ago, has gone from "state of the art" to "acceptable (just)" to "ho, hum" to "embarrassing antique" and now to "bloody collectible". As far as I'm concerned it's a mobile phone that I can understand and use. Oh, and it's only of any use if you want to phone or, God forbid, text people.