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Post: It's a phone, people.

Ken Hagan

It's a phone, people. 

In Too dim to set up your phone? Pay someone else to do it

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If it requires any configuration beyond what the average 50 year old can manage (*) then it is broken beyond redemption and the interface designers should have the engineering samples plugged where the sun don't shine.

I realise that one person's crap interface is another person's business opportunity, but that's why everything (**) in the world is shit. Can't we break the cycle for once by just not buying the product?

(* I know a 10-year-old is the usual comparison, but the average 10-year-old probably hacks pirated copies of Vista onto phones for the hell of it these days.)

(** That might be a minor exaggeration. Then again...)

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