Warner Crocker at Gottabemobile.com is at it again. Apparently he has too much time on his hands over the weekend. This Monday he’s popped out a list of random things that puzzle him.
Things like battery life specs, crapware and customer service. I won’t steal the thunder from a great post but I’d like to add a few things.
Cases
Why do companies still make computer cases without thinking about where to put the power brick and cords?
Crippled Devices
Why do manufactures or suppliers (cough, wireless providers, cough) cripple perfectly good devices? Verizon keeps crippling bluetooth. Apple, crippled bluetooth on the iPhone. Samsung can’t squeeze anything resembling a real headphone jack into a Blackjack. You can’t use an MP3 file as a ringtone on an iPhone!?! Some days I’m convinced that common sense has died and some company with wireless in it’s name killed it.
Can’t someone make a UMPC that combines the best of the Q1 and the R2h?
Proprietary Cables
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the armpits of the next person who creates another stupid proprietary cable when mini usb would do just fine. Yes, Apple, Treo, Nokia, Blackberry, Motorola. While I’m at it, why do we need so many different charging tips for laptops?
Battery Life Specs
Warner covered this pretty well but I have to respond. The problem with everyone lying about battery specs is that the first guy to tell the truth won’t sell any devices. People have been lied to for so long that they’ll automatically cut the battery life in half in their head. It will probably take a lawsuit like the class action against monitor manufactures to finally clean up the battery life mess. I’d be happy if manufacturers would simply explain how they got to their battery life estimate. What was on, what was off, etc.
Work is keeping me pretty busy, so thanks Warner for letting me sponge off of your spare brain cells.
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