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Re: iPhone features for navigators
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2012 Feb 9, 17:09 -0800
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2012 Feb 9, 17:09 -0800
After resisting the urge for many, many years I did the "upgrade" The iPhone is much more than a simple phone. It's got a very active GPS in it, so I can get driving directions from my current location to any other location. It's got a compass in it (a necessity for a car navigation system, since it needs to know which way your car is pointing as it starts you off). It's got a calendar, notepad, calculator, and a dozen more. And that's before downloading any additional apps (for example, I downloaded one that gives tidal data) at any tidal reference station in the USA. For free. It's a superb, elegant, highly functional hand-held computer.
What I find sorely lacking, though, is the concept of a "help" button, like one gets in Windows. I downloaded a huge "help" file for the iPhone from Apple, but I find its instructions simplistic, belaboring the obvious (okay, maybe there is that grandma from Kansas City that need the "obvious") but then sorely lacking in detail. So neither of my questions are answered in Apple's "help."
They seem to have a paradigm of "go to the Apple store" to get answers. But I can't imagine that every Apple employee is a super-expert in every app that comes on the iPhone, or even an expert on just the ones (like clock and
compass) that are default apps.
From: Alan S <alan202@verizon.net>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2012 4:15 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: iPhone features for navigators
Lu Abel:You might have run into some of the poorer specimens, I cannot say, but for whatever it might be worth, consider the following.One of the things than led to the downfall of the auto industry was the advancement of the concept of Moving The Iron above all else, especially quality.Re the problems you are having with your new I Phone, I don't have an old fashioned cell phone, let along a "smart" phone of any brand or type, the above mentioned concept may have wormed its' way into Apple, with their chief concern having become moving product, or their particular type of "iron". Just a guess on my part.----------------------------------------------------------------
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