You know that old cliche...'you can put a man on the moon but.....'. Well I have a rant that I need to get off my chest. And like I said please feel free to skip this post.
A couple of months ago Aryn installed roku on both of my tv's. My monthly Telus bill for optic tv went from 200 plus different amounts every month (which included internet) to 124. Most of that is the internet.
It took me a while to get used to the Roku. It has its drawbacks. The actual change in the programming is great, it's the instrument you have to use that is the nightmare. My rant is about their unbelievably ridiculous extremely badly designed clicker. It's so bad I googled who was the idiot that designed the piece of crap.
Bould Design from San Francisco is the culprit. The opening statement on their site is all untruths according to me. And as I have pointed out before...this blog always seems to end up about moi! I am going to try to post a copy of their little statement that starts their site. It probably won't go properly as I feel that whoever designed blogspot are cousins of Bould design. Here goes:
BOULD DESIGN is a strategic partner for bringing highly functional, beautiful and successful products to life through a professional, user-centric design process. Our focus on function, simplicity, quality and character has achieved outstanding results for clients ranging from stealth mode startups to diversified multi-nationals.
Well guess what? I am a client and I have a total opposite view of their clicker.
1. Function?....the little buttons are....LITTLE!...My fingers are not big. They don't overflow onto neighbouring buttons on anything else...like my other clickers I have. But this little piece of crap? Why yes they do. One is forever hitting two buttons at once and always the wrong one is the one that will operate not the correct button.
2. Beautiful?...it is about four inches by 2-3 inches, all black with teeny tiny faded white printing or symbols on the buttons. Plus it is not a sharp square edge that sits on the arms of chairs or edges of overcrowded side tables. Noooo. It is rounded so it falls off EVERYTHING.
3. Successful?... it freaking well is NOT. It is so tiny you keep dropping it. And to push buttons from the top of it to the bottom you actually have to hold it with one hand to poke buttons with the other. Thats just plain stupid.
Clearly young people with dexterous hands that still have max feeling in their finger tips and good, really good, eyesight so they can actually see what the buttons are and good memories so they can whip around that stupid control with no problem, designed this. Plus they are from San Fran.
Well I am a fat cranky old half blind desensitized broad. Who the hell do they think are the tv watchers in this world? It sure as hell are not any people under 55ish. Those youngsters are all watching YouTube or insta or tick Tok on their phones. They don't need weenie pieces of crap to operate a tv. But us old dinosaurs need big huge buttoned, well marked, bright remote controls that don't fall off arm chairs and side tables. It takes five minutes to get out of that chair to pick it up and if we bend over too far we either fall or can't get back up. And by then when we finally get back into our chairs we have to find the damned rewind button and the stop button and the go button and.....well you get the point. Shame on BOULD DESIGNS. (I hope they have a roaming bot that finds their name when it's used. If you did find it and you are reading this...SHAME ON YOU!!!). That does happen doesn't it?
Well if you are still with me I don't have anything to report. My house is so clean. The cleaner came yesterday for the first time in a month. Boy did it ever need cleaning!!! And now I sit here feeling nervous. Clean houses always make me feel nervous. Today I am determined to find all my jeans (totally missing) and throw out half my shirts. Wish me luck!!!
TFL & TTYL
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| YOU KNOW UNTIL THE LIGHT FROM THE CAMERA WAS ON IT I HAD NO IDEA THAT THE ARROW BUTTONS WAS PURPLE |
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