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JoeSoap
I have a smartphone (although I resisted one until the end of last year) and have managed to post pictures with no trouble at all, despite the occasional rotation issue. But it's never been hard to do. I take a picture on the phone, then when I click the insert image thingy on the forum posting thingy, my phone always asks me where to get the picture from. I just click on Gallery and all my photos are there. I select the one I want, hit upload then hit Ok. Works every time although as I say, the rotation can sometimes be an issue.
But most of my forum activity is done on a PC, or at least a Windows tablet. Phones are great but everything I usually do online I just find so much easier on a PC. Sure, when I'm out and about or working away, the phone is convenient for browsing or messaging or responding to posts, but in an ideal world, I'll be doing the real work on my PC with three monitors and the ability to have the forum on one screen, a spreadsheet or something on another and my image software on the third and just seamlessly swap between them with the keyboard and mouse.
Take the E.On Next app. It doesn't do anything that I can't do easier, faster and with more flexibility on a PC. For folk who don't have a PC, I completely see the point, but clever as they are these days, if you want to do something properly, do it on the 'pooter!
Plus, being somewhat chronologically gifted and the old 👀 being not what they once were, having a 'big screen' and a completely separate keyboard instead of an on-screen touchpad taking up half of a miniature screen anyway is so much more easier on my eyes.
It rather annoys me that someone brings out an app that looks rather as if it will be handy and then only offers it as an Andrex or Apple option. Case in point is my Vodafone app for interrogating my router and tweaking my internet.I need my phone to use it, yet my PC is hardwired to the router and a PC program would be far more efficient, faster and allow me to work on a bigger screen.
Victron make a perfectly good Windows app to work with their solar kit, but needs an external USB interface to physically plug into their hardware. The phone app does it via Bluetooth. Yet I have Bluetooth on my Windows tablet, but their software can't use it. The phone app does the job, but on a 9" screen I need my glasses on and I can't pull info out of the app and directly into my spreadsheets. I have to 'share' the data via email and email it to myself and then open it up on the PC!
This modern fangled 'all in one device, palm of your hand' tech is all well and good, but doesn't half restrict what you can actually do with it. Data is like manure...it doesn't do any good unless you can spread it around to where you need it. I find the easiest way to spread anything around is a good old keyboard and mouse!
