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"The KeyOne is a phone for a very specific person, one that longs for the days when the BlackBerry Bold was the most important device in the office and the majo
by blakesterz 10y ago
"The KeyOne is a phone for a very specific person, one that longs for the days when the BlackBerry Bold was the most important device in the office and the majority of business communications happened over email."
Do communications happen over something else now for many/most businesses? Yes, for SOME businesses the majority of business communications happen over something else, but I'm under the impression that for MOST businesses email is still holds the majority of communications still. Am I wrong on that?
- iamatworknow 10y agoMaybe they're just referring to intraoffice communication? Seems these days that's skewing more toward Slack/Hipchat. Business to business, though, I think you're right -- e-mail is still the best. Except, of course, when dealing with someone who just has to have a muffled GoToMeeting/Join.me conference, and that ends in "I'll send you the details via e-mail" most times as well.
- blakesterz 10y agoThat's what I thought, I don't know that e-mail is still the best, but it's at least what I thought most people at most places still use to do exactly what you described there.
- iamatworknow 10y agoIt's not perfect but I do think it's the best for a number of reasons: It has the lowest barrier of entry (I don't have to train people/myself on how to use the e-mail GUI), don't have to sign up for some new account, don't have to rely on some other company's up-time (or potential dissolution), and don't have to pay a subscription fee. A company I'm working with now insists on using their Basecamp account as our means of communication and it's certainly less convenient than e-mail would be, and (at least to me) it doesn't provide any features that e-mail doesn't as far as interoffice communication goes.
- digi_owl 10y agoOn that note, i ran into an Android "app" the other day that (ab)used email as the backend for a messaging interface. Ah, found it: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.b44t.messenger https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.b44t.messeng...
- thesuitonym 10y agoProfessional bloggers often seem out of touch with the rest of the world. They seem to think everybody starts their day out with an hour at Starbucks drinking $5 cups of coffee and replying to tweets, then heads out to the gym to take selfies for an hour before lunch.
- jcadam 10y agoHa! You nearly made me spew my cheap, Maxwell House office coffee all over my keyboard. Not that I'm wasting time on HN at work, I would never do that...
- na85 10y agoWhere do you live that a coffee costs $5? Around here a grande at starbucks costs $2, and even the fanciest of the fancy drinks costs less than $5. Is your local starbucks charging you 10 bucks for a flat white or something?
- spcelzrd 10y agoJust checked transactions on my credit card. Most of my Starbucks purchases are five dollars and some odd cents. Seems like he nailed it. I'm in Atlanta.
- pound 10y agoI guess it's not just for single coffee. Either couple of them or sandwiches/croissants.
- atemerev 10y agoHere in Switzerland: flat white ~$6, caramel macchiato grande: ~$9.
- mikestew 10y agoWhere do you live that a coffee costs $5 That really wasn't the point, Captain Pedantic. But since you asked, a double tall latte at Starbucks here in Seattle costs me about four bucks. Add some sprinkles and syrup, I don't see five dollars being outside the bounds of reality.