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Ah, come on. It's time to get real about all the Spencer Gifts level of bells and whistles added to all this technical garbage, as a convenience upsell. Luxury items are exactly that. A luxury. When everything is perfect, a luxury is wonderful. But luxuries are suicidal to retain, in a crisis scenario. The problem with the mindset of staple-gunning Specer Gifts luxury mode convenience onto practicalities of critical infrastructure, is that you wind up with a UV flourescent black light fire extinguisher. Which is awesome, if you're playing lazer tag in a party time glow-bowl bowling alley, while listening to Laser Floyd's Wall at the planetarium. But we're selling radical day glow fire extinguishers to regular people, for daily use, in the home, to Kmart shoppers. This shit has nothing to do with domestic violence. It has to do with priorities, and graceful degradation. None of these special smartphone app convenience bonuses degrade gracefully, so that the core functionality may be retained, while stripping out the extra technical fluff of packet switched, TCP/IP, GSM 4G LTE, broadband wi-fi global availability, so that you can bounce your playlist off a router attached to satelite phone at a sub-station in antarctica for two factor authentication, because the QT library for the UI had a bug forcing you to turn it off and then back on again, so you can log back in, and change the channel on your smart TV with your phone without having to get up from the couch to find the remote control, because blu ray disks won't let you use the play button to watch the movie, and only the remote has the OK/enter button, and none of the buttons on the set-top-box player will start the movie. |