On Dec 6, 5:03*pm, dsi1 > wrote:

> You can have either reliability or utility and mobility. Pick one.


Whoops, I replied to John but was really replying to your post.
But the same thing stands for both of you - that as you say you can
have one or the other - but you can also have both. It's not some
kind of all or nothing at all type situation. The landline is without
a doubt superior in many ways. I wondered years ago when they're
going to make a cellphone for home use. You know, shaped like an old
princess phone. Or maybe you can take your cellphone and snap it into
a large phone-shell for when you're at home lying in bed. You can
plug it in like a house phone. That day will probably come.
Everything I think of happens eventually. When you get home, take
your cellphone and snap it into the princess phone housing and close
the trap door. I have seen people slide into reliance on mobile
technology because their lives are moving too fast. They get the ear
bud or the speaker phone and the quality sucks, and they either know
it or they just don't care, because the sound on the other end of the
line often sucks, and even when you remind them of it they'll say,
"Well, that's because I'm doing dishes right now", or washing their
hair or some other multi-tasking activity, which means whatever
they're doing they're doing it half-assed. I'm all for whatever
works, but a lot of people on the cellphone remind me of hamsters in a
cage and the wheel never stops.

TJ

TJ