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Ha, I do remember seeing one of those Surface Tables once - it was a couple years ago at a Microsoft facility in Boston. Personally, I hate touchscreens. I re
by douche 12y ago
Ha, I do remember seeing one of those Surface Tables once - it was a couple years ago at a Microsoft facility in Boston.
Personally, I hate touchscreens. I recently went to Logan International in Boston, and discovered that the big boards with flight/gate listings had been replaced with wide-screen TV-sized touch screen interfaces. It took me almost five minutes to get into the touch screen interface, figure out how the search function was supposed to work, realize the search function was broken, and then scroll through the listings to find my flight. In ye olden days, I could have stood there looking at the board, and either seen immediately what my gate was, or waited thirty seconds or so for it to cycle to the second page if there were a lot of flights.
Windows 10 actually does look very good. They've rolled back the blunders of the Win8 UI, which is really the only reason I can see for somebody not upgrading before. There's really no excuse for continuing to use Win7 or god forbid, XP for much longer.
- 0xffff2 12y agoWas your phone dead? I haven't actually looked at one of those arrival/departure boards in close to a decade.
- douche 12y agoSometimes analog is just quicker. There's nothing like getting to an area with shit wireless when you're relying on your phone. So I print out tickets, confirmation numbers, even directions and maps when I travel. My last trip I was kicking myself for not remembering a little bubble compass...
- bunderbunder 12y agoI don't clutter my phone with every single airline's app, electronic boarding passes often don't list the gate and never reflect status changes, and I don't get text updates when I'm traveling for work because our corporate booking system helpfully hard-codes my office phone in the contact information. Besides, even when the stars line up and my phone really does reliably give me updates on the flight status, digging it out of my pocket, unlocking it, etc is more hassle than glancing at a status board as I walk past.
- taco_emoji 12y agoYou don't need separate apps. I use this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flightaware.android.liveFlightTracker https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flightawar... (Though as I said in another comment, I still check the boards when they're close by, just to be sure.)
- taco_emoji 12y agoMaybe it's irrational, but I don't trust my phone app to have the latest info on gate info or delays.
- function_seven 12y agoIt's not irrational. The text alerts (from United anyway) are hit and miss. Half the time I find out about delays and cancellations from the board long before the phone get an update.
- cdcarter 12y agoIndeed. I've even seen several times the multi-airline boards have delay info that the reader board at the gate doesn't even have yet!