How The Linux Foundation and Fedora are Addressing Workstation Security (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 15, 2013 18:34 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: How The Linux Foundation and Fedora are Addressing Workstation Security (Linux.com) by drag
Parent article: How The Linux Foundation and Fedora are Addressing Workstation Security (Linux.com)

* Be able to communication with a number of people via their favorite method.

... as long as that method isn't a phone call. I've avoided smartphones like the plague myself, but every single one of my telephonic correspondents who has a smartphone (even the highly technical ones) has terrible trouble actually getting it to work as a phone. Some of them crash in the middle of calls or when getting cut off and require rebooting: some of them require rebooting whenever you associate a Bluetooth headset: some of them just have really really bad call quality. Not one appears to be tolerable. This seems to be a universal across iPhone and Android: I don't know anyone with a Windows Phone to judge, but I suspect that sucks too. (Curiously, BlackBerries, at least before the latest revision, were not too incompetent at being a simple phone.)

How The Linux Foundation and Fedora are Addressing Workstation Security (Linux.com)

Posted Feb 18, 2013 13:33 UTC (Mon) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link]

>every single one of my telephonic correspondents who has a smartphone (even the highly technical ones) has terrible trouble actually getting it to work as a phone

I submit that this is largely selection/confirmation bias.

There are at least a couple of *billion* people with smartphones, the majority of whom are entirely non-technical and have no trouble using one as a phone. If the situation were even remotely as bad as you suggest, it would be very obvious.