Comment: One third of PDA users choose device over spouse?!
By Ben Robinson on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at 3:10 PM PST In Ideas and rants
PDAs preferred to Spouses
There have been some fairly shocking stories in the last week or so, what with the tumultuous time that the global economy is going through – but the story that shocked me the most (apart from the one about the 77 year old woman caught with Class A drugs on her) was the one that Simon posted about one third of PDA users that would choose their devices over their spouses!
I mean, come on, devices are multifunctional for sure, but do they really compare with the loved one in your life?! There’s a time when you have to wonder about (a) the sanity and (b) the reality of some of these stats – and I think this is a good case.
Personally I work to the assumption that any device I own should have all it’s “value-add” (i.e. the data in it) copied to a more reliable, and permanently located storage device – be that a PC, hard disk, or other. Ultimately if the device gets lost the only concern is blocking the network access on the SIM account. So the device is just replaceable hardware. But turn that argument to your spouse, and can you say the same?!!
As Simon neatly pointed out, does this point to the state of relationships today – I surely hope not…
