{"id":3638,"date":"2011-12-14T22:47:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T03:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2011-12-14T22:47:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T03:47:04","slug":"luddite-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/luddite-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Luddite No More"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time, folks. Amy is going to trade in her DumbPhone. The other day a friend of mine said, “What do you DO without a SmartPhone?” I told him I have to look up directions to a place before<\/em>\u00a0I leave the house. And if a question pops into my mind, I just have to sit there<\/em> and be curious about it<\/em>. Honestly, how do I live like this? It’s barbaric.<\/p>\n

But seriously, I’m thinking of going paperless-calendar for the first time in my life. I’ve had a daily planner for as long as I can remember, and I’ve resisted the digital calendar for years, but it seems a little ridiculous now that it could be available so promptly and easily. Also, I dig those bitchin photography programs where you can make your pictures all sepia and whatnot.\u00a0Not to mention GPS and indulging my curiosity at every whim.<\/p>\n

So I’m going to get an iPhone. (Some of \u00a0you will exclaim, “No! Get a Droid!” to which I will respond, “What is that I don’t even.” But go ahead, do your worst to convince me of your heathen ways.)<\/p>\n

The question is, do I pay the extra $100 to get a 4S? From what I understand, the only major difference between it and the plain old 4 is Siri, a $15 app that’s been around for two-and-a-half years but recently got bought up by Apple so they could make a brazillion dollars on it. (I know a guy who knows this stuff.) And as cool as it is that when you say, “Tar,” Siri replies, “Heels,” she and I also seem to have political differences<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Are there other magical things I’d be missing out on if I didn’t get the 4S?<\/p>\n

(Also, I just looked it up, and I’m eligible for an upgrade on February 17… I don’t think I’m going to last that long.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time, folks. Amy is going to trade in her DumbPhone. The other day a friend of mine said, “What do you DO without a SmartPhone?” I told him I have to look up directions to a place before\u00a0I leave the house. And if a question pops into my mind, I just have to sit … Continue reading Luddite No More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-world-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3640,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions\/3640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}