Comments on: Using Technology To Simplify? http://jontillman.com/2006/06/08/using_technology_to_simplify/ Part of the problem since 1976 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:29:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Jon Tillman http://jontillman.com/2006/06/08/using_technology_to_simplify/#comment-95 Jon Tillman Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:42:15 +0000 http://jontillman.com/2006/06/using_technology_to_simplify.html#comment-95 Thanks for stopping by. I am not so much disagreeing with your original point as providing a slightly different angle on it, and in no way should my position be taken as supporting "gadget-itis", which I am recovering from as well. Multi-function devices are almost never a good idea, are they? In my opinion, the only nice advance in cell phones recently has been bluetooth. Less wires is always better! I agree that DRM is a huge flaw in my "simpler" music collection. I now have two copies of every song; one on an external hard drive ripped straight from the CD to FLAC, and one made from the FLAC copies for iTunes in AAC so that my original copies are not infected by PlayFair. A good bit of work up front, but worth it in the long run. Thanks for stopping by.

I am not so much disagreeing with your original point as providing a slightly different angle on it, and in no way should my position be taken as supporting “gadget-itis”, which I am recovering from as well.

Multi-function devices are almost never a good idea, are they? In my opinion, the only nice advance in cell phones recently has been bluetooth. Less wires is always better!

I agree that DRM is a huge flaw in my “simpler” music collection. I now have two copies of every song; one on an external hard drive ripped straight from the CD to FLAC, and one made from the FLAC copies for iTunes in AAC so that my original copies are not infected by PlayFair. A good bit of work up front, but worth it in the long run.

]]> By: Dennis D. McDonald http://jontillman.com/2006/06/08/using_technology_to_simplify/#comment-94 Dennis D. McDonald Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:32:42 +0000 http://jontillman.com/2006/06/using_technology_to_simplify.html#comment-94 Thanks for the comment! I agree with all your bullet points. You may be misinterpreting my original comments. My issue is not with technology, it's with devices that don't add significant enough marginal value to justify the additional cost and time to set them up and maintain them. This is one of the reasons why when given a choice between two cellphones on my last re-subscription with Verizon, I chose the one WITHOUT the camera. My reasoning: I already have a decent digital camera, I didn't want to incur the extra costs of learning and using the phone's camera and the images it would generate. I certainly agree with your comments about CD's. It's a pity that DRM incompatibilities exist, and that's an example of an externally-imposed complexity (e.g., the incompatibility between technologies such as Apple's PlayFair and Microsoft's PlayForSure approach)that reduces overall value and market potential. Nice blog! Thanks for the comment!
I agree with all your bullet points. You may be misinterpreting my original comments. My issue is not with technology, it’s with devices that don’t add significant enough marginal value to justify the additional cost and time to set them up and maintain them.
This is one of the reasons why when given a choice between two cellphones on my last re-subscription with Verizon, I chose the one WITHOUT the camera. My reasoning: I already have a decent digital camera, I didn’t want to incur the extra costs of learning and using the phone’s camera and the images it would generate.
I certainly agree with your comments about CD’s. It’s a pity that DRM incompatibilities exist, and that’s an example of an externally-imposed complexity (e.g., the incompatibility between technologies such as Apple’s PlayFair and Microsoft’s PlayForSure approach)that reduces overall value and market potential.
Nice blog!

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