DocAndersen
Yesterday I talked, again, about a topic, that of my being a technology nomad. It is part of who and what I do but it is still something I have to stop and consider from time to time. I often bounce from concept to technology and back to concepts again. I do, however in the best sense of fairness, want to point out that there are technologies I do not often change if at all. For example, printers are an area I don’t often change. For many years I only had HP printers. My level of dissatisfaction with HP’s overall product quality had me move to another printer company. Over the course of the process of our family moving to Maryland, I jettisoned all my HP printers (it did take three years). Now I only have Canon printers in the house.
I also don’t vary or move from the DSLR (Canon) I have. I did upgrade that camera once, but since then I have enjoyed using it. I can’t share any of the pictures taken with that camera on the various sites I publish because of the size. I also don’t edit or modify pictures But many other things I have moved through options and considerations. The easiest stuff for me has always been protectors and cellular phone add-ons. There are some things you can quickly consider and add, without committing a lot of existing resources to the new solution. I wandered three different plugs and used iPhone 360-degree cameras. The loss of one company to closure was a tough blow. But I knew there were other options out there.
The iPhone has been a steady state phone for me since 2012. I was a PPC user, then the beginning windows phone user before moving to Android and finally ending up on the iPhone. I haven’t done anything regarding changing or using a different phone since I made the final switch. I do, from time to time miss my old pocket pc phone, but that is more reverence for the past than a desire to go back to that. I guess what I am trying to say a lot of words and examples is that as a nomad I am not completely free. I do, have certain technologies that I have embraced. There are certain technologies that I use every day; I don’t look for the nomadic new technologies in those spaces. I do have boundaries in which I am a nomad!
I am way behind the times, I still have a flip cell phone.
One of the twins still wants a flip phone!
Technology evolves around you it seems. You embrace the change, unlike others. I edit occasionally, cropping mostly to cut down on the extra not needed in the photo. But we all have our own ways of doing things. At first I thought I don’t need an iPhone until I got one free with Verizon a few years ago and now that is all I have, love it.
It is funny how our phones have become our life lines.
I know. I am not like so many I see. I can go out to eat and drive without my phone. 🙂
I have a car phone system in my car, so I can talk on the phone, but I do like to leave my phone behind when I go out on the boat!
Yes I have the wireless system in my car as well. So many cannot talk to each other without their face in their phone.