I am lying in bed last
night playing WWF on my iphone.
I get an update
notification for the new OS7. It’s
free. I download it, no problem.
It takes a few minutes and
soon I have a brand-new looking 4S phone.
All the little icons are different.
The background is different. The
Apple programs are different. The design
is cleaner. Lighter. Fresher.
This morning I leave the
house at 8am with a fully-charged phone.
I get to the real estate class (number 3, 17 left) and check my
phone. My battery level is at 63% and I haven’t done anything. By the time
the class ends, at 11:45, I have about 4% of my battery life left.
Wow. This sucks.
Nice new software that keeps my phone alive for a millisecond
I call Apple. They suggest closing all my open
programs. Turning off the w-fi. And lowering the brightness. “Charge it to
100% and then let the battery run out.
See if it lasts longer.”
I fully charge my phone.
Go to book club. Have a spirited
conversation with seven smart, interesting women. We discuss the book for less than five
minutes, but the stories everyone has to tell are far more interesting than the contrived
and depressing story in Love Anthony. Get home around eleven. Three and a half hours. Battery level (having
not used it once): 49%.
Now what do I do? Carry around a back-up battery? Never leave home for more than a couple of
hours? Stop using my phone
except for emergencies?
My next stop: the Genius Bar. I doubt Steve would have let this happen.
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