Geffers
Linux enthusiast
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Many things nowadays depend on a mobile app. Without a mobile everyday tasks can become an issue.
Newer phones seem to be allowing for this by way of larger memory, the norm nowadays seems to be 256GB whereas a few short years back it was 8GB or 16GB
Herein lays the problem, today I switched my spare phone on, not old, about 4/5 years old, been working fine, it now will not boot. Ten years ago this would have been a nuisance, not a major inconvenience. Now however, people have digital pay for credit cards, banking apps, apps to pay for parking fees. Who gets an insurance certificate now, it is all PDF and kept on phone. Boarding passes for air travel.
If your phone fails now it is not a nuisance, it can be a catastrophe, so what is the safeguard now? Two phones? I don't know the answer really.
In the old days if a shop till broke down out came a notebook and pencil, business carried on, nowadays an IT failure means no business takes place.
Maybe the old filofax was the best idea.
Geffers
Newer phones seem to be allowing for this by way of larger memory, the norm nowadays seems to be 256GB whereas a few short years back it was 8GB or 16GB
Herein lays the problem, today I switched my spare phone on, not old, about 4/5 years old, been working fine, it now will not boot. Ten years ago this would have been a nuisance, not a major inconvenience. Now however, people have digital pay for credit cards, banking apps, apps to pay for parking fees. Who gets an insurance certificate now, it is all PDF and kept on phone. Boarding passes for air travel.
If your phone fails now it is not a nuisance, it can be a catastrophe, so what is the safeguard now? Two phones? I don't know the answer really.
In the old days if a shop till broke down out came a notebook and pencil, business carried on, nowadays an IT failure means no business takes place.
Maybe the old filofax was the best idea.
Geffers