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Bikram Vohra
JournalismPakistan.com
May 20, 2013
I am absolutely convinced that the computer industry has us reduced to being victims of a conspiracy. Now, I know that we are all hooked onto the Net and can't do without windows except leap out of them if we were ever to lose that facility but there has to be a limit to the speed of development.
Twenty minutes after you buy some software it has become obsolete and two days after you have called the neighbors in to show off your Pentothium 600 or whatever you are informed by their snotty little kid that nana nana na naaa, we have a Pentothium 620.
This is very unfair. I agree with Mr. Gates that no industry has even come close to developing with the breakneck speed of computers and that if General Motors developed the car that fast we'd be driving 25 dollar cars that did 100 miles to a gallon. In fact I commend Mr. Gates on this astute observation but what I fail to understand is why I have to install new windows every year.
And there are all these railway station platforms called apps or whatever and you can get any stuff out of the ether and they come in all sizes and the moment you get one they release another one with another button.
Not to forget the phones. I love my 99 dirham phone. It falls and the battery clatters out and then you put it back together and it shakes hands with you. My friend has a 4000 dirham phone with nine buttons and you have to handle it like it was made of porcelain because if you press the wrong button it starts doing other tasks and you can go crazy controlling it.
Okay, I confess. I have had Windows 95, 97, and 98 and now a 2007 in my system and I have been scared to tell anyone that I can't quite make out the difference between any of them except for this stick like figure in glasses that squeaks onto the page in one of the versions and does pretty little else of value. Only if I type Dear Sir, this icon of brilliance asks me if I am writing a letter. It is also now obsolete. But I have it.
So, what worries me is another few months there will be Windows 2014 and the next door neighbor's snotty little kid will get one from his rich father and then I will be up the gum tree.
So long as his new galactic phone has an extra knob than my friend’s mobile I am okay.
(The writer is a Senior Editorial Advisor of Khaleej Times and the paper’s former Editor. He has also been the Editor of Gulf News, Gulf Today, Emirates Today and Bahrain Tribune)
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