Happy is utility for me, finding a use for my apps is awesome.
I
dont drive my car to class for fun, but if it makes it to class whilst
powering uphill through a 50 degree Laguna Seca-style corkscrew all
whilst maintaining a 39MPG fuel econ' then it brings me happiness.
Going
from home to class in 7mins with about 4 red light intersections and 5
stop signs is just brilliantly good work on Toyota's end. Brakes,
turning radius, throttle control, disposable spark coil prices, ultra
light frame future-death-trap. All these things come together to make
what would be just driving to class an action packed and extremely
low-cost adventure.
My iphone is a utility only when everything
is working together, if I have to send a picture however, its no longer
fun and I am no longer happy. To send a picture with a Verizon iphone,
you either have to hot-glue your phone directly into your wireless
router at home or go through miles of settings to turn on 3G. With my
low-end data cap at 2GB per month, I have to go back through the
labyrinth of settings on the iphone to turn it back off after the
picture is sent. If I dont, then even when I'm in range of my 5 bar wifi
router-my iphone will automatically start eating up the 3G data until I
get a 4AM automated text from Verizon telling me that I used 75% of my
data plan so far.
"Smart phone" they say....
Apps like my
alarm clock app, YoctoClock, which (puts me to sleep/wakes me up with)
music is useful for.....waking up, but even better is the progressive
"non-heart stopping" wakeup to a 5hr playlist starting near dead silent
4hrs before you need to wake up. Yocto Clock gets me up and ready to go
without the growning pain of the standard "ding" of the default iphone
sounds.
Happy is the satisfaction of success,entertainment or comfort.
Utility is the expedited pathway to reach happy.
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