On May 24, 7:41*pm, Graham Nye wrote:
On 24/05/2012 15:28, ian batten wrote:

... *Cranks who don't carry debit
cards are an increasingly irrelevant portion of society and, rather
like people who complain about processes which require a mobile phone,
there comes a point where it is unreasonable for the rest of us to
subsidise them.

Is a dumb phone adequate for your vision of a conveniently conforming
society or are we all supposed to have smartphones?

For the problem I was thinking of (SMS parking systems), a standard
phone will do. But eventually, "I don't have a smartphone" (which is
this year's equivalent of "I don't have a television" --- we're
supposed, presumably, to be impressed by your principled stance) will
place you in a set presumed to be economically inactive.


I note the rise of adverts where URLs for further information are
deliberately obscured from non-smartphone users:

No, they've just made a decision that people who don't use smartphones
but who are also a potential market for their product aren't a large
enough set to worry about.

ian