Comments on: Amazon.com iPhone/iPod App http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/27/amazoncom-iphoneipod-app/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:42:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Duros 62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/27/amazoncom-iphoneipod-app/#comment-131113 Duros 62 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:18:21 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=12111#comment-131113 <i>Just no market for guys like us anymore.</i> Sure there is. <a href="http://www.jitterbug.com/Phones/" rel="nofollow">Here </a>you go, guys. Just no market for guys like us anymore.

Sure there is.
Here you go, guys.

]]> By: Parthenon http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/27/amazoncom-iphoneipod-app/#comment-130983 Parthenon Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:55:53 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=12111#comment-130983 Just no market for guys like us anymore. Everybody needs to watch television while they're on the bus. Heaven forbid anybody crack one of those little square objects with words in them - what are they called again? Yes, that's right, I'm getting old. Just no market for guys like us anymore. Everybody needs to watch television while they’re on the bus. Heaven forbid anybody crack one of those little square objects with words in them – what are they called again?

Yes, that’s right, I’m getting old.

]]> By: Sean D. Martin http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/27/amazoncom-iphoneipod-app/#comment-130976 Sean D. Martin Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:33:55 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=12111#comment-130976 Parthenon: <i>I thought you were against spending that kind of money on a phone (as I am).</i> Luddite that I can be at times, do you realize how difficult it is to find a reasonably priced and useful phone that just places and receives phone calls? Don't want to cruise the web on an itty bitty screen. Don't want/need PTT or GPS or any of the other (literally) bells and whistles to know exactly where my friends are ant every moment or, more importantly, have anyone know where I am at every moment. Don't need a camera. Don't need tiny buttons placed in the most inconvenient places possible so I can't close the lid with one hand without turning the speaker on. Don't need an orchestra in my pocket. A phone. That makes and receives phone calls, goes "ring" when someone calls me and has buttons that are scaled to the size of a human finger. Parthenon: I thought you were against spending that kind of money on a phone (as I am).

Luddite that I can be at times, do you realize how difficult it is to find a reasonably priced and useful phone that just places and receives phone calls?

Don’t want to cruise the web on an itty bitty screen. Don’t want/need PTT or GPS or any of the other (literally) bells and whistles to know exactly where my friends are ant every moment or, more importantly, have anyone know where I am at every moment. Don’t need a camera. Don’t need tiny buttons placed in the most inconvenient places possible so I can’t close the lid with one hand without turning the speaker on. Don’t need an orchestra in my pocket.

A phone. That makes and receives phone calls, goes “ring” when someone calls me and has buttons that are scaled to the size of a human finger.

]]> By: Parthenon http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/27/amazoncom-iphoneipod-app/#comment-130968 Parthenon Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:58:56 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=12111#comment-130968 I thought you were against spending that kind of money on a phone (as I am). I thought you were against spending that kind of money on a phone (as I am).

]]> By: drinkof http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/12/27/amazoncom-iphoneipod-app/#comment-130966 drinkof Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:23:11 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=12111#comment-130966 Retailers (especially with consumer electronics) always used to complain that consumers would come into the store, learn what they needed to know, then go down the street to Circuit City and actually buy it. This pattern later replicated itself to the Internet. Nice to see some payback to the brick and mortar. How cool and complete the circle would be if you were checking Amazon while in a local book store, yes? Retailers (especially with consumer electronics) always used to complain that consumers would come into the store, learn what they needed to know, then go down the street to Circuit City and actually buy it. This pattern later replicated itself to the Internet.

Nice to see some payback to the brick and mortar. How cool and complete the circle would be if you were checking Amazon while in a local book store, yes?

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