Perspective, The Fickle Mistress

[7eregrine]

Sadly, Waze is not available on Apple CarPlay. No indication that it's coming either.

You'll never have Waze on CarPlay. That's one of the problems with it. Apple wants you to use their maps. This isn't going to change any time.... ever. Aple is all about PROPRIETARY. (Google isn't much better ONLY allowing Maps currently in AA.)

 

[Padre Dave01]

I'm an old guy (63-4) who taught community college anatomy and physiology and serve the Church as a Pastor. I love my tech toys and I have from the beginning. Kids still come to me to ask how to do something on their Mac's...cool. I have NAV in all of our Mazdas, a 2016 CX-5GT, a 2015 CX-9 GT and a 2010 MS3. The nav system is never used, as setting my trip up on my iPhone before I leave is much easier than inputting info into the NAV.

The one nice feature on my CX-9 nav is a chime whenever there is a radar photo system at an intersection in the Phoenix metro area.

I prefer my iPhone and iWatch to guide me to where I need to go.


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[dyingquail]

Had a family get-together yesterday. One of them came from a couple of hundred miles away. They live up in the hills, probably away from cell service, so satellite nav is probably a good thing for them. Of course, the restaurant we met at had moved a couple of months earlier so they were a little late due to their satellite nav not having been updated and they wound up at the old location.

 

[Buzzman12]

I was talking to a group of older folks in their late 50's and 60's.
The old "kids today... all they do is look at phones, play video games."
Then it invariably always comes up: "When we were kids, we went outside! We didn't have to come home until the street lights came on" (that one I've always found odd...I was still allowed to be outside when it got dark) "we didn't stare at screens!"

Well, I just cannot stand that holier than thou attitude so it finally needed said: if you had the things that kids have today, you'd be JUST LIKE THEM. You went outside because there was NOTHING TO DO INSIDE! lol

And do NOT tell me you didn't watch a lot of TV either.

"well, err... yea, but...."
mm-hm.
If you could have held a TV in your hand in the 1960's, you'd have carried it around, too.

Don't paint all us old folks with the same brush.
Yes, there are seniors that talk and behave just like you said, but then there are others like me who love high tech, and do all that I/they can to keep up with current technology.
I'm 67 years old, now retired after working 35 years for a high tech company.
I have 2 laptops (windows), a desktop (windows), a Samsung Galaxy tablet, an Ipad, an Iphone, an android phone, an e-reader, plus 3 HD smart TV's.
I also have a TomTom GPS that I use because I don't have sat nav in my cars.
My son is a computer programmer and writes software for the airline industry. My 14 year old grandson is already teaching himself to program.
Lastly, if I could have held a TV in my hands in the 1960's, I would have been at the front of the line. I love this stuff.
I guess it runs in the family.
Not every old fart is a Luddite or a dinosaur.
Cheers.

 

[7eregrine]

Certainly not implying everyone of a certain age, my friend. Just that group of mostly family I was with.

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[Buzzman12]

Certainly not implying everyone of a certain age, my friend. Just that group of mostly family I was with.

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Hey, no problem.
I just re-read my own post, and it sounds like I was angry or upset. Trust me, I wasn't.

I have plenty of friends around my age, and some of them are exactly as you describe.
I've heard them utter the classic lines: "kids these days...blah blah blah". I just don't comment on it and try to move on.
These are the same friends that couldn't program a microwave, still have 3 VCR machines, and all of them are flashing 12:00.

As for today's youth, there are a lot of great kids out there these days, and then there are a few real nasty pieces of work.
Oddly enough, it was the same when I was a kid. There have been, and always will be, good kids and people, and bad kids and people. That will never change.

Then I started thinking about all the "new" technology I experienced over the years, and remembering some of the breakthrough products that came out that rocked the world.
I remember buying my first handheld calculator when I was taking night courses. Paid almost $100 for it (big money back then), and it didn't do much more than add and subtract.
Even so, I was blown away by it.
Same as ten years ago when I saw the first Iphone. Had to have one.

Anyway, enough of my old guy ramblings.
All this to say that I still enjoy new technologies, and I try my best to stay current.
Cheers.

 

[7eregrine]

I didn't think you were annoyed.

"all of them are flashing 12:00." LOL Right on.


and "As for today's youth, there are a lot of great kids out there these days, and then there are a few real nasty pieces of work.
Oddly enough, it was the same when I was a kid. There have been, and always will be, good kids and people, and bad kids and people. That will never change."

Well said...
To be fair, I know some pretty tech clueless young people, too. Not many... but a few.