Comments on: Boston, McDonalds and iPhone http://saunderslog.com/2007/10/29/boston-mcdonalds-and-iphone/ A daily round table on the tech industry with experts and callers from all over the globe. Join us as we pick apart the news and get to the meat of what\'s happening out there. Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:18:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: MGU http://saunderslog.com/2007/10/29/boston-mcdonalds-and-iphone/#comment-425496 MGU Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:12:15 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2007/10/29/boston-mcdonalds-and-iphone/#comment-425496 Hello Alec, I got your point! I hear Boston is a great place. Cell phones have their place, I suppose – they could be useful in emergencies, but on the whole I don't like'em. Nasty contraptions! The basic McDonald's hamburger and fries is not too bad, and McDonald's is a fun place to take kids. On the whole tho' its an uncivilised place to eat. We can't halt "progress", but I hope Canada can resist more cell phones and more McDonald's for a little longer. Love, Dad Hello Alec, I got your point! I hear Boston is a great place.

Cell phones have their place, I suppose – they could be useful in emergencies, but on the whole I don’t like’em. Nasty contraptions!

The basic McDonald’s hamburger and fries is not too bad, and McDonald’s is a fun place to take kids. On the whole tho’ its an uncivilised place to eat.

We can’t halt “progress”, but I hope Canada can resist more cell phones and more McDonald’s for a little longer.

Love, Dad

]]> By: Alec http://saunderslog.com/2007/10/29/boston-mcdonalds-and-iphone/#comment-425423 Alec Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:41:12 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2007/10/29/boston-mcdonalds-and-iphone/#comment-425423 Ma - the women behind the counter weren't chatting on the phones. What I found remarkable was that the customers were so engrossed in their phones that they were ignoring the whole scene. Ma - the women behind the counter weren’t chatting on the phones. What I found remarkable was that the customers were so engrossed in their phones that they were ignoring the whole scene.

]]> By: Mum http://saunderslog.com/2007/10/29/boston-mcdonalds-and-iphone/#comment-425417 Mum Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:33:34 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2007/10/29/boston-mcdonalds-and-iphone/#comment-425417 I must have missed something in this story. Does anyone care about manners, service to the public (i.e. giving the customers their greaseballs in a timely manner)? I would have been out of there in 2 minutes fearing for my safety! Why would we want more cell/iphones if public places deteriorate into pandemonium? I hope the powers that be keep the prices high so that I can navigate in public without being assaulted with other peoples arguments, conversations, tapping out, etc.! I must have missed something in this story. Does anyone care about manners, service to the public (i.e. giving the customers their greaseballs in a timely manner)? I would have been out of there in 2 minutes fearing for my safety! Why would we want more cell/iphones if public places deteriorate into pandemonium? I hope the powers that be keep the prices high so that I can navigate in public without being assaulted with other peoples arguments, conversations, tapping out, etc.!

]]> By: Peter Childs http://saunderslog.com/2007/10/29/boston-mcdonalds-and-iphone/#comment-425214 Peter Childs Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:48:07 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2007/10/29/boston-mcdonalds-and-iphone/#comment-425214 We in Canada are not well served by our regulators - who often seem more interested in company interests than citizens. It's not just the CRTC - which could do things to foster competition, - which results in lower pricies and more innovative offerings everywhere it happens, but doesn't. Food inspection is the same - with recent stories of inspection processes that should keep us safer but in reality have to be rubber stamps because of staffing. Health, where reports of drug effects are not public - and of course with security regulators - where companies and individuals can be convicted in the US while here they are still examining whether action is even required. In the short term Canadian consumers suffer - in the longer term even the companies do - because while business elsewhere have learned to compete. and implimented business processes to profit in more competative environments - Canadian business hasn't. We in Canada are not well served by our regulators - who often seem more interested in company interests than citizens.

It’s not just the CRTC - which could do things to foster competition, - which results in lower pricies and more innovative offerings everywhere it happens, but doesn’t.

Food inspection is the same - with recent stories of inspection processes that should keep us safer but in reality have to be rubber stamps because of staffing. Health, where reports of drug effects are not public - and of course with security regulators - where companies and individuals can be convicted in the US while here they are still examining whether action is even required.

In the short term Canadian consumers suffer - in the longer term even the companies do - because while business elsewhere have learned to compete. and implimented business processes to profit in more competative environments - Canadian business hasn’t.

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