In the iBus this morning
As usual, I woke up this morning at 6:30, after having knocked my alarm off for three times. "I'll give it another five minutes", I kept on saying. I wish I had an intelligent mind like my iPhone, (well it's an old model, iPhone4 to be precise) It goes to snooze and wakes up every 10 minutes, until I tell it to stop. Yea, stop. At least it's better behaved than my three year old boy. Of course my Nokia 3310 was capable of doing that too, a decade ago, you see, it's a case of inheritance.
I leapt off my bed straight into the shower and did an express wash, I mean the one that you do not really have to go into detail. I was done within five minutes and I checked my iPhone for the time of the next bus, my 51D. It's always the same time everyday but I can't help checking, because I have in it this App that gives "real" bus times. It said my bus is due in the next 6 minutes. I hurried up as it takes three minutes to walk to the stop from my house. As usual, I found the same people that take that bus with me everyday, this one is kind of "professionals only", no school children (even if it allows them), so there is no one playing Ketty Perry's Last Friday Night too loud into everyone's heads. Even non-professionals like myself behave like one when they are in this bus, I sat there and read yesterday's Financial Times that I found on the seat.
A few seconds after I arrived at the stop, the bus came, and that has always been the case since I downloaded this App. This prompted one passenger who obviously has realised this, to ask me. "You must be looking through your bedroom window to see if the bus is coming, how do you always arrive here exactly on time, whether the bus is a bit late or early?" I was quick to show him the App in my iPhone, who wouldn't show off anyway, if given an opportunity to? "Woow!" He said, taking out his own iPhone4, I never knew he had one too. "Can you show me how I get this in my phone?", he enquired. This time we were already in the bus and sitting together. His voice was loud enough for everyone to hear that he had just discovered some useful App for his phone. The other passenger at the seat across also stretched over to get some advice. Immediately, I had turned into a "Help Centre". What surprised me was how some people asked help on "basic stuff" but I was quick to remind myself what could be basic to Peter could be not so basic to Paul, as I always say, "no one is better than me, and I am no better than anyone, we are just different" I continued to explain to everyone as they brought different issues with their smart phones. "Not so smart owners", I said to myself, no offence, I was just calling a spade a tool for digging.
As I went on with my new found profession of "On The Bus Mobile Tech Adviser", one person was trying as much as possible to avoid the attention that I was getting. Little did she know that it was her attention that I was trying to grab. This lady has stunning features and I think I fancy her, please don't tell my wife, I know she doesn't read my blogs plus she forgot her login details to the home computer, I'll survive, at least before my daughter helps her retrieve her lost password. Back to this lady in the bus, she always tries to look at me whenever I am focusing on my Facebook messages in the bus, so do I, I always take a sneak at her whenever she's not looking at me. Very often our eyes have clashed and we have both shied away from each other with some element of embarrassment. I was hoping that she, like other passengers in the bus, will come over and ask for some advice on some Apps. Instead, she took out her phone and started talking to it. It replied back, presumably giving answers to what appeared to be pre-recorded questions. All the attention turned on her not only because her phone could "talk", but it was the latest iPhone4S with Siri®. She had to raise her voice to get the attention of all the passengers and she indeed seemed to have won their hearts, her talking phone was wonderful until it embarrassed her in front of the full bus. She asked the phone what it thought of the people in the bus. "I don't know what you are talking about, James" the phone said. The fact that her phone called her James punctured her balloon. Most people thought that she was using James's phone, whoever James was. It's either Siri® wasn't intelligent enough or was afraid to tell the truth, that the people in this bus carried fancy gadgets like iPads and iPhones that they couldn't even figure out how they work.
One curious fellow passenger went on to ask this lady about a feature that was on this lady's iPhone. It's called iCloud. She also seemed not to understand why it was there in her phone. She couldn't even ask Siri®, not wanting to be called James again, may be this time, Michael. I knew what iCloud is but was afraid to start explaining about it because my own outdated iPhone4 doesn't have it. iCloud is Apple's internet storage for pictures, documents that the users create themselves and any device that runs iCloud will automatically upload the files via internet to Apple's huge data storage centre in North Carolina. I hope they (Apple) have another back up in case they are hit by an unforeseen disaster, say, iClouds turn into rain.
Pictures taken on an iPhone4, for example, will be stored in an individual's own iCloud account. Another Apple device, eg Mac or iPad logged onto the same account will automatically download the pictures to keep the files synced to all of that individual's gadgets. This applies to e-mails, documents and contacts too. This puts Apple in direct (or even better) position with similar services from Google like Gmail and Google Docs.
Before I knew it, I had reached my destination in O'Connell Street in Dublin City Centre. It was an interesting 40 minute bus ride that most people got to learn more about the gadgets they buy, carry and show off everyday but do not have complete information on how they work. If Apple releases an iPhone4N ("N" for non-change) today, everyone will abandon their ordinary iPhone4s like mine to get the latest, no one wants to be left behind in this fast changing iWorld.
I leapt off my bed straight into the shower and did an express wash, I mean the one that you do not really have to go into detail. I was done within five minutes and I checked my iPhone for the time of the next bus, my 51D. It's always the same time everyday but I can't help checking, because I have in it this App that gives "real" bus times. It said my bus is due in the next 6 minutes. I hurried up as it takes three minutes to walk to the stop from my house. As usual, I found the same people that take that bus with me everyday, this one is kind of "professionals only", no school children (even if it allows them), so there is no one playing Ketty Perry's Last Friday Night too loud into everyone's heads. Even non-professionals like myself behave like one when they are in this bus, I sat there and read yesterday's Financial Times that I found on the seat.
A few seconds after I arrived at the stop, the bus came, and that has always been the case since I downloaded this App. This prompted one passenger who obviously has realised this, to ask me. "You must be looking through your bedroom window to see if the bus is coming, how do you always arrive here exactly on time, whether the bus is a bit late or early?" I was quick to show him the App in my iPhone, who wouldn't show off anyway, if given an opportunity to? "Woow!" He said, taking out his own iPhone4, I never knew he had one too. "Can you show me how I get this in my phone?", he enquired. This time we were already in the bus and sitting together. His voice was loud enough for everyone to hear that he had just discovered some useful App for his phone. The other passenger at the seat across also stretched over to get some advice. Immediately, I had turned into a "Help Centre". What surprised me was how some people asked help on "basic stuff" but I was quick to remind myself what could be basic to Peter could be not so basic to Paul, as I always say, "no one is better than me, and I am no better than anyone, we are just different" I continued to explain to everyone as they brought different issues with their smart phones. "Not so smart owners", I said to myself, no offence, I was just calling a spade a tool for digging.
As I went on with my new found profession of "On The Bus Mobile Tech Adviser", one person was trying as much as possible to avoid the attention that I was getting. Little did she know that it was her attention that I was trying to grab. This lady has stunning features and I think I fancy her, please don't tell my wife, I know she doesn't read my blogs plus she forgot her login details to the home computer, I'll survive, at least before my daughter helps her retrieve her lost password. Back to this lady in the bus, she always tries to look at me whenever I am focusing on my Facebook messages in the bus, so do I, I always take a sneak at her whenever she's not looking at me. Very often our eyes have clashed and we have both shied away from each other with some element of embarrassment. I was hoping that she, like other passengers in the bus, will come over and ask for some advice on some Apps. Instead, she took out her phone and started talking to it. It replied back, presumably giving answers to what appeared to be pre-recorded questions. All the attention turned on her not only because her phone could "talk", but it was the latest iPhone4S with Siri®. She had to raise her voice to get the attention of all the passengers and she indeed seemed to have won their hearts, her talking phone was wonderful until it embarrassed her in front of the full bus. She asked the phone what it thought of the people in the bus. "I don't know what you are talking about, James" the phone said. The fact that her phone called her James punctured her balloon. Most people thought that she was using James's phone, whoever James was. It's either Siri® wasn't intelligent enough or was afraid to tell the truth, that the people in this bus carried fancy gadgets like iPads and iPhones that they couldn't even figure out how they work.
One curious fellow passenger went on to ask this lady about a feature that was on this lady's iPhone. It's called iCloud. She also seemed not to understand why it was there in her phone. She couldn't even ask Siri®, not wanting to be called James again, may be this time, Michael. I knew what iCloud is but was afraid to start explaining about it because my own outdated iPhone4 doesn't have it. iCloud is Apple's internet storage for pictures, documents that the users create themselves and any device that runs iCloud will automatically upload the files via internet to Apple's huge data storage centre in North Carolina. I hope they (Apple) have another back up in case they are hit by an unforeseen disaster, say, iClouds turn into rain.
Pictures taken on an iPhone4, for example, will be stored in an individual's own iCloud account. Another Apple device, eg Mac or iPad logged onto the same account will automatically download the pictures to keep the files synced to all of that individual's gadgets. This applies to e-mails, documents and contacts too. This puts Apple in direct (or even better) position with similar services from Google like Gmail and Google Docs.
Before I knew it, I had reached my destination in O'Connell Street in Dublin City Centre. It was an interesting 40 minute bus ride that most people got to learn more about the gadgets they buy, carry and show off everyday but do not have complete information on how they work. If Apple releases an iPhone4N ("N" for non-change) today, everyone will abandon their ordinary iPhone4s like mine to get the latest, no one wants to be left behind in this fast changing iWorld.
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