/I join a number of people this weekend in bidding a very fond farewell to 2012. Fortunately, we did not experience the end of the world, and I look ahead to new adventures!
I began my adventures a little early by upgrading from my five-year-old smart phone to an IPhone. I was a bit frightened of this. The IPhone’s touch screen calls on those of us who are blind to use our understanding of spatial arrangements in ways that are not natural for us. I was afraid that I might forget where things were on the screen, or worse, which of the ten home screens an app had found its way onto.
Beyond this, I just did not want to be the person with the IPhone in her hand all the time. People who use their phones for every little thing annoy me. Sometimes I want to take a phone out of a person’s hand just to remind them that they can survive, or to remind them that I still exist and I am the person they agreed to have lunch with.
So it was with great feelings of hypocrisy that I admitted to my husband that I was finding innumerable uses for the color detector app and that the barcode reader in the IPharmacy app cut my need for help with sorting our medications significantly.
I limited the amount and type of tracking software I installed. If I was really a visual thinker, it might be useful to me to have my bank balance and spending all tracked in a spreadsheet that I could see on the go. For now, I am not ready to make that leap. I have similar feelings about other types of personal data–you can track almost anything on the phone now.
The one exception is medical data… There is an app I can purchase that will allow me to input my medical history and medication list and keep it up to date. That kind of thing would be handy to have available for a med tech to view to make the paperwork process go faster.
The other thing I am trying on the phone is an app for managing my web sites. I am using this post as a test. I have to admit that it would be handy to be able to work on the site on the go. I lose a lot of time to transportation, waiting at the doctor’s office, etc. I grudgingly admit that the IPhone would revolutionize the way that I work.
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