Family Affairs and other matters

I have been like a child in a sweet shop all week.  Playing with my new iphone and downloading apps.   WHY DIDN’T ANYBODY TELL ME HOW MUCH FUN I’VE BEEN MISSING?  I knew I should have one – a bit like having a husband, or a child, but this is just SO much better than all of that stuff put together.  I have even had to tell my daughter that I love it more than her – which she’s fine with actually.  I hadn’t realised how much I needed one.  I thought it would take me ages to get used to and it was only because of the official breakdown of my previous phone, coupled with a permission to upgrade alert and a week without many distractions to learn how to use it that prompted me to take the leap.

I SO should have done it before.  I LOVE it.  I can actually sit on the loo and blog.  I can do big blogs on the bog.  Ha ha.  There is even a sitting on the loo app I can download if I want to connect to other people doing their big blogs at the same time.

I have been gaily downloading apps all week.  What a huge amount of choice.  As I turned my phone on I was offered a squishy poo soundy app, but it didn’t appeal, I haven’t got the drinking lager app or the light sabre or indeed any games but I can now read 80 newpapers from around the world every day, scan the barcode of any product with the camera in my phone to compare prices,  order my coffee, check out the latest headlines, find my way around the world, find any film I want, look at recipes, work out train times, check out the weather.  In fact this morning, as I gazed lovingly at my iphone I was able to report that at EXACTLY that time, outside the window, if I’d bothered to look it was ACTUALLY snowing and I could do all this without bothering to engage with reality ever again.  Quite extraordinary and frankly when I did bother to look at the icing of snow all over the lawn, yes, of course it was pretty, but my iphone is prettier.

So, are the mobile “apps” or applications going to be the next big thing?  Now that they are becoming so easy to download and are more serious and useful than before?  Presumably the main reason for the explosion is that Apple have successfully persuaded billions of us to give them full time access to our credit card details.  Genius idea.  It makes things so easy (for the moment, until somebody successfully hacks into their secure systems and steals our lives).  If it is true that globally the number of mobile devices exceed the number of desktop devices by a factor of ten then it is clear that businesses should be looking at how to achieve competitive advantage through this channel and certainly the opportunities seem endless.  There are now about 100,000 apps available from the Apple store to download but presumably that number is set to rocket as more companies come on board.

As I am assuming that I one of the last bloggers in the world to get with the programme (all my Disney blog mates had them last year I seem to recall) would somebody please tell me which Twitter app I should download?  There are loads of them.  Don’t want to get that wrong….I am v excited because I have become known in the world of Twitter as the one who replies about 3 years late to leave a message and invariably I find myself responding to the wrong thing.  Hopefully all this is about to change.