I've yet to figure out how that works.
What it has done, is it's made me think carefully about how I use my phone and what for.
Not as a phone, I can tell you. I made one call today at 10:34am. I had one incoming call yesterday and then the next two entries in my log are over a week ago.
Hardly as a text machine either! My last few texts are a combination of offers from a local gym, reminders from my dentist and an ongoing argument with a friend about how many exclamation marks are acceptable at the end of a sentence.
WhatsApp has replaced text messages for me, almost entirely.
Then there are apps. I use a few all the time: Tweetbot, Notes, Blogger, Birdbrain, YouTube and Google Maps. I also use the voice recorder for song ideas a lot. But that really is about it. I see I've downloaded a lot more. I can't think I'm going to use Spirit Level, Learn Japanese or Text to Speech any time soon.
Why have I even got a smartphone? What do I need it for? Just to fit in with the cool gang? Or have the marketeers at shiny glass-windowed companies simply persuaded me that there is no difference at all between 'wanting' something and actually needing it?
I could go on about that difference a lot. Thankfully I don't have a TV so I'm not often subjected to garish adverts that blur the line so persistently you can't see it through all the stuff you've bought.
These devices are so expensive. I'm starting to wonder whether I'd be better off without one altogether.
But of course, I wouldn't. I do actually use those few apps I mentioned to great effect. I don't wish to get lost on the way back from a late-night folk gig any more than I want to send messages to my friends by carrier pigeon and record my croaky singing voice on a wax cylinder.
So I'm stuck really, unless I just shell out and let those t-shirt wearing geniuses at Apple win. And I'm starting to think that they planned it this way all along, didn't they?
And before you ask, yes I do check my emails! < see, one really is enough.
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