“I feel your pain. I have zero interest in any sort of cell phone. I ignore the landline phone for months at a time. I have zero interest one that “Alexa” thing too. Car makers tout “Android and Apple compatible” in dash video games. Could not care less. The one thing that would be useful, a CD player, has been deleted.”
It’s all about getting consumers on subscription plans, that is the holy grail for business.
For me, subscribing to OnStar so that if I ever lock my keys in the car I can call them
( assuming I didn’t lock phone in car ) and they can remotely unlock it is most definitely not
worth a monthly payment. I do subscribe to XM radio, to me it is worth the monthly fee, but that
is just a personal preference, I can see how someone would not see the value in it.
Did a river float with a good sized group of people a couple of weekends ago, in 1 canoe
a couple of 20 somethings had their I-phone tuned to their Pandora account, bluetoothing
tunes to a couple of little portable speakers they had set up on their beer cooler. Good
sound quality,too. But some of us oldsters enjoy the sounds of nature, so we just paddled
and stayed a couple of bends ahead so we didn’t have to listen to it. And this was out in the
boonies, too, and I don’t think they ever lost the cell signal.
Played in a golf outing last weekend, and several different groups had the same setup in their
golf carts. All tunes, all the time. It was a scramble, so it’s basically a 5 hour party
while hitting golf balls, can’t say that I enjoyed their taste in music, but no big deal.
A lot of technology feels like heavy overkill to us, but to the younger people, that’s what they’re
used to, so it just feels normal.