New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

a phone call is not a text

Well yeah, but they're both phone-styled communications that people think have some importance.

I think there should be a "don't notify on new text message" option, though. I think of email and facebook messages and so on as more deferred, but I guess for many, text messages are deferrable.

people text me important shit all the time

btw--i fixed the slowness in the maps app by turning off location sharing for it.

Then you hit "close" and not "view" right?

Every single time.

Or do you really get pissed off when your phone stops doing EVERYTHING when a call comes in?

YES. Bloody thing needs to have a bar at the top or something (like the tethering bar) that says 'yu0 has a phoen call' that you can ignore.

Single best thing about ipads is that they don't do phone calls or texts therefore you can choose to be never interrupted by anything ever.

oh and max, if you're getting texts that must be answered RIGHT AWAY then your acquaintances are doing it wrong.

no

Well yeah, but they're both phone-styled communications that people think have some importance.

― mh, Monday, March 7, 2011 10:46 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

calls are real-time, text messages are turn based, pretty big diff I think

Yep. It's like people who send you an email then march over to your desk like 20 seconds later asking you why you haven't read it yet. If person A needs to speak to person B urgently why is person A sending a text ffs

texts are much faster and more to the point than calls

Schlafsack, have you considered just giving people a Google Voice number or whatever? I mean, it sounds like you don't give a shit about using your phone as a phone, and that lets you ignore most calls at your whim.

we don't have google voice here

if i have an urgent message for someone why would i call that person, wait for the ring, exchange hellos, give them the information, etc

def, it makes much more sense to send them a text that probably gets shuttled to the background while the person is furiously engaged in playing angry birds

its really not my fault that none of you have any idea how to use your phones

this is like when tracer was all bummed that he couldnt save drafts of his text messages

^^ real talk

I have heard the youngs are getting thousands of text messages per day so it probably interrupts their angry birds and web browsing and suchwith, but I haven't had that prob yet.

I liked it much better when the iphone just displayed the text of the text on the unlock screen, I guess they changed it to better protect privacy but you shouldn't be sexting in the first place, is my position on that

OI I HAVE TO SPEAK TO YOU RIGHT NOW IMMEDIATELY THAT IS WHY I HAVE LEFT THIS MESSAGE FOR YOU TO FIND WHENEVER YOU HAPPEN TO LOOK AT YOUR PHONE

you dont have to "find" text messages, your phone makes a noise, sometimes it vibrates as well

noise & vibration last longer if you call y'know

yes, i know

txts rule calling droolz

get w/the program grandpas!

I think...

I think you guys...

use phones differently

if anyone tries to call me i will murder them!

so intrusive, no manners

I'd use airplane mode but I'm playing networked Carcasonne ffs

If you're in wifi range, turn it on to airplane mode then turn wifi on. That way you can use Internet but not be interrupted by texts or calls.

ppl who text back immediately intimidate me. same reason I dont like to use AIM a lot

txts rule calling droolz

otm I get annoyed now when ppl leave me a voicemail

We really need deferred text sending, just to make sure no one responds in the near term, right?

omg voicemails are the worst i never listen to voicemail

yeah i havent listened to a voicemail in years

I never listen to voicemails but I get mad when ppl dont listen to mine

just jailbreak your phones and you can have all the features you want.

my phone

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my phone is much more functional now that its jailbroken, proper notifications, proper multi-tasking...much more usable not that its not a glorified touch.

plus the ability to have more than 8 items in a folder.

Oh man, I agree that third-party extensions may have better notifications and such, but your phone UI looks like straight-up cluttered ass to me, man.

haha, i like it that way. a lot of people go for the minimalistic approach on the home screen huh? For someone who is OCD, i need it this way.

I am crazy as shit but I just end up with messiness everywhere so I appreciate things being minimal and clean as hell on my phone

and the clutter to me is organized. my wife has got things all out of folders all over pages, drives me batshit.

i've farted around with different mimimalistic approaches to the home screen and i just felt that things i needed involved too much fucking around and flipping pages.

Reminds me of my chillout room at home, I don't have to look for any of the recent music/magazines/movies I've been fucking with because they're all right there on the floor

see thats funny, because to me it's organized....my phone.

I recently put tons of stuff in folders but I find clicking on a folder then clicking on an app not much better than swiping quickly 2 pages to get to an app, so I've gone back to a hybrid where all the stuff I use regular gets it's own page, and less common stuff is grouped into folders.

hmm...yes that does make sense.

I think of it like that study about people with messy desks being organized, because everything is piled up in sight and they know where it is and it's sorted by how recent it is and not filed away all organized and alphabetized. Somehow I know that I just swipe over 2 screens to get to the stuff I want to read, but if I want a remote control for my audio software I go digging in the music folder.

so very true