{"id":1127,"date":"2015-08-02T11:05:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T18:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2015-08-02T11:05:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T18:05:25","slug":"sunday-soapbox-learn-to-use-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1127","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Soapbox&#8211;Learn To Use Your Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/latestnews9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cracked-smartphone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Several months ago my company made the decision to no longer allow customers to plug their phone into our photo kiosks to print their photos, now they have to download a Kodak app which communicates via Wifi. \u00a0 I certainly understand a customer being reluctant to install any app on their phone (especially an app that will constantly send them ads and so forth!) but I&#8217;m pretty sure that they would have to do the same at Walmart\/Target and so on, so it&#8217;s up to them if they want to use ours. \u00a0They could of course download them to their PC at home and send them online if they choose, but if they&#8217;re in the store it&#8217;s the only way to do it.<\/p>\n<p>What amazes me is how clueless a lot of people are about their phones. \u00a0The kiosk gives pretty clear instructions&#8211;download the app, open settings and connect via Wifi and it&#8217;s easy from there. \u00a0Well, to most people it&#8217;s easy. \u00a0But often I&#8217;m dealing with a customer who has a shiny new IPhone and they don&#8217;t even know how to download an app, or don&#8217;t even know their password for the Itunes store to get one! \u00a0 (I&#8217;m also amazed how many people have phones with cracked screens. \u00a0 Yes, it&#8217;s $100 for a new one, but either put your phone in a case or be more careful if you&#8217;re going to carry around a cracked phone forever.) \u00a0 Then I have to wait for them to find &#8220;Settings&#8221; somewhere in the mess of icons they have scattered everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re going to store all of your photos on your phone for eternity, at least take some time to organize them somehow. \u00a0There&#8217;s nothing like standing around trying to help someone while they are scrolling through the 1,500 photos in their &#8220;Camera Roll&#8221; to find the 3 that they&#8217;d like to print today.<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know, I&#8217;m a tech guy and am expecting too much from the general population but if you&#8217;re not going to download apps and use the full capability of the phone, why spend so much money on a good one? \u00a0 Please join the 21st century with the rest of us. \u00a0That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several months ago my company made the decision to no longer allow customers to plug their phone into our photo kiosks to print their photos, now they have to download a Kodak app which communicates via Wifi. \u00a0 I certainly understand a customer being reluctant to install any app on their phone (especially an app <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1127\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-stories"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}