OK, this thing with the cell phones has gone TOO G.D. FAR.
I'm talking functionality - new things to add on to an already overloaded device. Cell phones can already take pictures, track appointments, give you the weather, surf the Web, take voice memos, serve a personal organizers, play music, and a list of other crap some Japanese company is cooking up for the US market as we speak.
Now, Verizon is putting TV shows on
cellphones. TV SHOWS! The pitch is a "mobisode", as quoted from the Washington Post:
"The 'mobisode' (short for mobile episode), adapted from the Fox series, makes its debut Tuesday as part of a new push by Verizon Wireless Communications Inc. to sell mobile-phone video service to subscribers for a fee of $15 a month."
As if people didn't have enough friggin distractions while driving, now the next dumbass who rear-ends you or cuts you off could be watching Kiefer Sutherland in the latest twenty-four"mobisode". To continue the quote....
"Cell TV is the latest diversion that wireless carriers are marketing to mobile Americans who want to stay in touch and entertained whether they are waiting in a grocery checkout line or sitting at an airport..."
ORdriving on I-95. That's the part that scares me. I don't care about the 800 features Kyomotorolatachi puts into their phones - I'm getting pissed at how irresponsible consumers get with using them.
The whole driving ordeal is enough to bump my blood pressure up as is. Don't people drive bad enough already? Why do we want to unleash on these morons another way to spend time not paying attention to the road?! I swear there should be a law here...
On the plus side, the people who spend their time thumbing through emails on the Interstate probably deserve a good wake-up call - maybe an airbag deployment would do the trick.
Then again, that's grim thinking. To those people, I apologize. I don't wish you harm, just some friggin' respect for the two-ton vehicle you so calmly disregard while texting your friend on your Nokia. You shmuck.
In closing, be a gadget person to your heart's content. By the all-in-one electric shaver / PS2 / toaster, pay for Verizon's new "mobisode" service, put a down payment on the latest unreleased mobile, digital colostomy kit,... but use your gadgets when you're NOT DRIVING. OK?!
