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With the spare cash I have at home. I don't have a spare phone at home, with a spare SIM card.
by scbrg 8y ago
With the spare cash I have at home. I don't have a spare phone at home, with a spare SIM card.
- james_s_tayler 8y agoSo... the logical conclusion is you would instead have a spare phone at home.
- djdjdndhx 8y agoHmm, keep $200-600 of quickly depreciating assets whose creation is a sin against our children’s enviroment when I can have five crisp linen Benjamins at home? And do the same for car. And the hotel room when you are travelling. Doesn’t seem too logical.
- james_s_tayler 8y agoYou know I already have a spare phone at home. Cost me nothing technically since when I upgraded I just kept it instead of throwing it out. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Y'all bitch it's ridiculous (and I ain't saying it's right or that I agree with the premise of having to do it in the first place), I'm just saying thats what people will do faced with the situation.
- djdjdndhx 8y agoSo you’re in Puerto Rico and the hurricane hits. No cell phone towers for a week. No electricity for months. What do you do now? Pawn your backup iPhone X for $30?
- scbrg 8y agoWhich is a significantly bigger investment. An extra phone is a permanent loss of the money that went into buying it, it requires maintenance (of a sort) and needs to be replaced on a regular basis since the payment apps will presumably continue to require relatively recent operating systems. It also requires a dedicated SIM card with associated cost. As a bonus, phones sometimes explode and set fire to things - when they're not busy getting hacked :)
- james_s_tayler 8y agoYou'll adjust.
- switch007 8y agoLogical: perhaps. Ridiculous: definitely.
- james_s_tayler 8y agoMost of life beyond the hunter/gatherer stage is ridiculous. It's ridiculous all the way down.
- djdjdndhx 8y agoWhy so?
- djdjdndhx 8y agoSIM card is key. In the US, last I checked, networks won’t give you an extra SIM for the same line. So you’d have to get an extra service line :S