First the good news. We got new phones today. I got the iPhone and it works pretty well. I can see myself using this pretty extensively. There’s lot to do with it and I’m finally happy I have a portable phone and camera. Plus, tweets and blog posts from my phone…how sweet is that?
Melanie’s phone…not so good. Made by LG, it feels like a toy–a cheaply made toy that will break if you look at it. Plus, I’m wondering if the language is off on it because I’m reading the manual, trying to help Melanie put in her contacts and it doesn’t understand its own programming. It is, for lack of better words, a P.O.S. Look it up if you don’t know the acronym. We’ll have to swap it out because clearly it won’t work.
On to printers…oh HP, why did you fall so far? Used to be that I would recommend HP by default because you made great printers that worked well, lasted long and didn’t hassle me. Now, you must be run by insane greedy monkeys. Something you’ve always done is required the user to purchase their own printer cable…this makes NO SENSE when your only connection to the device is a USB cable. Why aren’t you packaging USB cables to go with your printers? Point number two: installing a printer should not take over 200mb of hard disk space. I know that space is cheap, not really the point. I do not need all of the idiotic monitors and extra programs when all I want is a print driver. You used to be able to fit these on a floppy disk. I’m guessing that it will be soon that your software will not fit on an ordinary CD and we’ll have to go to DVD software.
I cannot in good faith recommend HP printers to anyone because all of the bloaty, useless software you install with it. This is not something I say lightly being someone who spent a good portion of their time recommending printers to people/organizations. It’s clear that HP has purged useful engineers and has filled those office cubes with marketing drones.
Other than that, not a bad day today.
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