I purchased a new
smarter-than-me-phone and service plan yesterday. The purchase and basic information transfer from
old phone to new phone took almost two hours.
Once I arrived home, I began to fiddle with the device.
The home screen was
alien. Swiping the screen brought forth
more alien interface screens. Odd new
icons appeared. Four hours later, as I
fumbled through lighted landing points, I began to understand the weight of
swapping devices. Reestablishing email connections. Facebook.
Instagram.
How many dozen apps had I
installed on my old phone?
Where is this?
How do I find that?
What in the hell will that widget do?
Download, yes or no?
Passwords, passwords,
passwords.
Dinner was overheating in
the oven as I poked and wiped through the smartphone interface.
At one point I called out
to that girl: “Who knew getting a new smartphone could be such a long and
traumatic experience?
--Mitchell
Hegman
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