He's too rich. And I don't mean that in any sort of communist sense. I mean simply that in his own little billionaire's club, where he's got an army of people sorting out his email and can buy a hundred of anything, he doesn't see things from our plebeian angle.
End to spam? Sure! For him, it's already happened. Just have a huge department to delete his viagra spam for him. Use a PC with a 3 hour battery life as his phone? No problem, he's got a few $100 batteries on standby. His tablet PC is a success for him! Why, he probably owns half a dozen of them himself. Never an outage in his hermetically-sealed, UPSed, IT-back-uped world.
Meanwhile, for us where some have never used a computer, a PC is overkill. Especially if there's a power failure, and the only working device is the ancient kit which gets 48V from the copper wires from the telco office. Especially in the country, where POTS is the ONLY communication network. Doubly so where you want a phone that doesn't need to reboot, and you don't need to buy antivirus for a touch-tone.
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He's too rich. And I don't mean that in any sort of communist sense. I mean simply that in his own little billionaire's club, where he's got an army of people sorting out his email and can buy a hundred of anything, he doesn't see things from our plebeian angle.
End to spam? Sure! For him, it's already happened. Just have a huge department to delete his viagra spam for him. Use a PC with a 3 hour battery life as his phone? No problem, he's got a few $100 batteries on standby. His tablet PC is a success for him! Why, he probably owns half a dozen of them himself. Never an outage in his hermetically-sealed, UPSed, IT-back-uped world.
Meanwhile, for us where some have never used a computer, a PC is overkill. Especially if there's a power failure, and the only working device is the ancient kit which gets 48V from the copper wires from the telco office. Especially in the country, where POTS is the ONLY communication network. Doubly so where you want a phone that doesn't need to reboot, and you don't need to buy antivirus for a touch-tone.