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When it’s a venue you don’t know too well and there are 8 bars on each floor, that completely breaks down. Sticking together doesn’t always work, especially whe
by davb 9y ago
When it’s a venue you don’t know too well and there are 8 bars on each floor, that completely breaks down. Sticking together doesn’t always work, especially when queues are split between men and women for pat downs (as is usually the case in the type of venue that would force you to put your phone in a locked pouch).
Of course we got by OK before mobile phones, but to suggest we give up the considerable benefits because an artist or venue opts for a heavy handed ban over a strictly enforced etiquette policy seems unreasonable.
- valuearb 9y agoYour selfish benefit hurts everyones experience. So they aren't "considerable", and you have a choice not to go to events with Yondr. People at events without Yondr have to deal with mobile phones making everyones experience worse, and there is little they can do about it.
- potta_coffee 9y agoLet's think of a million different hypothetical situations in which not having a phone is bad. Result: you sound helpless.
- orbitur 9y agoWow, all these hypotheticals. It's almost as if... not having a phone with you is worse than having it with you.
- nicky0 9y agoHaving a phone with you is a sign of personal weakness.
- lotharbot 9y agofrequently, these situations are not so much hypothetical as simply explanations of situations some of us have found ourselves in. Perhaps you have never had the experience of taking a close friend or relative with a disability, social dysfunction, etc. to their first ever concert and knowing it's partly enabled by the fact that if you somehow become separated you are both carrying electronic devices that will let you reconnect easily. (I find many people evaluate situations based on a default expectation that everyone involved is able-bodied, of sound mind, and socially adept, and then get defensive about "hypothetical" situations that are realistic considerations for a lot of us.)
- aembleton 9y agoIt does make me wonder how they cope when they travel overseas. Do they still use their phones as much there? Do they just accept the large bill?
- stuaxo 9y agoI'm anti phones in gigs, but spent a while overseas and the phone was really helpful... as an offline device. - Save docs of maps for later. - Save docs of the names of place you want to go (translated into the local language and in your own language) - Similar for a few key locations (ok - mostly the hotel). Makes a big difference when you can't read the local language... but yeah, being connected, not needed - and I could have done all that with bits of paper.
- monort 9y agoYou just buy a local sim card in airport.
- nicky0 9y agoYou should vote with your feet and not go to events with a phone policy you disagree with.