Are we too demanding?

[asteve76]

While browsing these forums and others like it, I noticed the amount of people demanding this feature or that feature.
Aren't we just a little too ungrateful for the things we do have, bearing in mind that when pay as you go phones first came out the only thing you could do with them was make a voice call?
My first phone was a Motorola mr201 which was only discontinued as recently as 1998. I think the battery from it weighed as much as my iPhone!

 

[DaveM]

Agreed -demanding and spoiled. Everyone has a want list, but it's up to the company to decide what's practical to implement from both a technical and business sense. But if a feature is already included and is supposed to work a certain way and doesn't, then it's a legitimate gripe. IMHO there are a few very basic models out there that can rightly be called "phones" anymore. These devices that we call smartphones are really handheld computers with one of their many features being the ability to make phone calls. I think the technology has outgrown the point where they should be called phones (or even smartphones) but no one seems willing or able to come up with a better moniker.

 

[VTR]

1st world problems is what you're describing OP.

When people complain bitterly it's definitely "a joke" (sarcasm intended) given how much we do have in developed nations and how easily it can be taken for granted.

Being grateful is not promoted enough in developed nations,being greedy and spoiled is.

 

[Gregoris]

While browsing these forums and others like it, I noticed the amount of people demanding this feature or that feature.
Aren't we just a little too ungrateful for the things we do have, bearing in mind that when pay as you go phones first came out the only thing you could do with them was make a voice call?
My first phone was a Motorola mr201 which was only discontinued as recently as 1998. I think the battery from it weighed as much as my iPhone!

I remember these phones that are not like a brick and you could not text.. my friend got a phone where you could text but no one could receive them lol

 

[VTR]

Yeah,my 1st mobile phone was an Ericsson GA628 in 1997 and it could text but at the time the Australian Telco's did not have a combined text network so you could not send texts to anyone bar those who were with the same telco as you.



That was changed as a lot of other ridiculous barriers to communications use in Australia around 1999.

I can recall when phones had attachable camera's for taking a VGA photo and then you could MMS it,the photo's were grainier than a film camera could deliver but it was all so amazing at the time.... lol

 

[iHolophyte]

While browsing these forums and others like it, I noticed the amount of people demanding this feature or that feature.
Aren't we just a little too ungrateful for the things we do have, bearing in mind that when pay as you go phones first came out the only thing you could do with them was make a voice call?
My first phone was a Motorola mr201 which was only discontinued as recently as 1998. I think the battery from it weighed as much as my iPhone!

My 1st mobile was back in 1992 and was a flip motorola that weighed as much as a small car. All you could do with this was phone. I had this phone for a few years. You could throw it at walls have it run over and it wouldn't even scratch it. After this I changed to Sony then after this a Sony with a detachable camera oh I was so yuppie! Thing is the camera was as much use as a pen under water! Then came predictive text then voice recognition. Then apple! I put this thing in my pocket and the anti scratch screen ........scratches! I wonder what it'll be like in another 20 years?


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[Del]

I remember my first one was a nokia back in 97-98. It was one of the wonderful pre-paid phones. I only used it for work/emergencies. My first contract phone was a Sprint phone that I got for basically nothing when I first joined the Navy. I have been on the three major carriers since. Im finally settled with my iPhone. I dont think Ill be going anywhere after this exept maybe the iPhone 6 lol

 

[bosox20]

Remember before cell phones they were car phones only?? And before that we used pagers. Unreal how far technology has come. Can't wait to see what's next.

 

[jpcamaro70]

While browsing these forums and others like it, I noticed the amount of people demanding this feature or that feature.
Aren't we just a little too ungrateful for the things we do have, bearing in mind that when pay as you go phones first came out the only thing you could do with them was make a voice call?
My first phone was a Motorola mr201 which was only discontinued as recently as 1998. I think the battery from it weighed as much as my iPhone!

I don't know if we are too demanding consider we all shell out a ton of money for these phones and plans now. We expect certain things because of the amount we pay. When phone upgrades were free, you got the latest and greatest phone, and only paid your service. But now, ANY new top phone starts at 200 (iphone) and all the top droids are 299, and that's the subvented cost by the carrier. Add that to your monthly service for two years and you have a lot of money you shelled out. We as the buyer expect them to be worth the money.

It's not being ungrateful if you are paying for it. IMHO.

 

[Rocko]

Remember before cell phones they were car phones only?? And before that we used pagers. Unreal how far technology has come. Can't wait to see what's next.

When I was 15 I talked my mom into getting me a pager. This is back when they were for the rich and drug dealers only. The rep came to my house in a 5 piece suit and my mom signed her life away. I thought that pager was it. Then the next year the came out with the vibrating pager and a light! Funny. I still have the pager. Still powers up.