This is how I know I live in the future
Nov. 10th, 2011 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nonelvisThe backstory is that one of our routers died today, leaving us sans wireless network. Considering the number of internet-enabled devices in our home far exceeds the number of residents, even including the cats, this is a problem. (And how little am I looking forward to reconfiguring the home network? Gin may need to be involved.)
That's not how I know I live in the future. No, that's because after a long drive in pouring rain to get my first winter CSA share, I went to the mall to buy a new router. The Apple Store was packed to the gills with people, and the wait to talk to someone who could sell me anything was clearly going to be significant.
But I'd read this morning that the Apple Store had released its own app allowing you to check out your own purchases, so here's what happened:
1) Thread my way through the crowd to the back of the store, where they keep the routers.
2) Connect iPhone to store's wireless network; download Apple Store app.
3) Launch app; touch option to purchase something; get little rectangle in which I must line up the product bar code.
4) App recognizes bar code and asks me to confirm my purchase, which is charged to the credit card attached to my Apple account.
5) Receipt appears on my phone.
6) Leave store.
Total elapsed time in mall: five minutes.
And now, to go configure a network. If only it were as easy as buying the router.
That's not how I know I live in the future. No, that's because after a long drive in pouring rain to get my first winter CSA share, I went to the mall to buy a new router. The Apple Store was packed to the gills with people, and the wait to talk to someone who could sell me anything was clearly going to be significant.
But I'd read this morning that the Apple Store had released its own app allowing you to check out your own purchases, so here's what happened:
1) Thread my way through the crowd to the back of the store, where they keep the routers.
2) Connect iPhone to store's wireless network; download Apple Store app.
3) Launch app; touch option to purchase something; get little rectangle in which I must line up the product bar code.
4) App recognizes bar code and asks me to confirm my purchase, which is charged to the credit card attached to my Apple account.
5) Receipt appears on my phone.
6) Leave store.
Total elapsed time in mall: five minutes.
And now, to go configure a network. If only it were as easy as buying the router.
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on 2011-11-11 01:23 am (UTC)