Are APPS Getting Boring?

I used to be an APP geek. (short for application of course, the web type). My inbox and RSS feeder were filled with newsletters and blog feeds about all the newest and most amazing web applications that were out each day.

Now I find I’m unsubscribing from both the feeds and the newsletters. I’m turning off my computer more. The ringer on my telephone – I actually have a landline as well as a cell – is set to off most of the day. And speaking of that cellphone I mentioned…it’s only on when I make a call, no incoming calls for me.

I’m bored. Bored with the numerous applications that all seem to be replicas of each other. I’m nauseatingly bored with the so called SMART phones. Why? Because the dumbest people seem to own them. I don’t NEED a smart phone. Everything available on the phones is available elsewhere and it’s more convenient (and smart!) to work from a home office, not while you’re driving your car with one hand while manipulating a phone and your coffee cup with the other.

Are you really going to be walking across a parking lot and have an emergency meeting? Or have to send or receive something right at that instant? Maybe you will have nothing to do while at the beach and absolutely have to play a game while you’re there or you need an email or pop up notification telling you it’s time for lunch.

I have a new name for these phones which I will keep to myself for now but I think you may be able to guess what it is. Which new phone APPS do you find the most redundant?