bungeejumper wrote:BullDog wrote:It already is. It's a few years ago now, more than three I think. Interactive Investor told me I had to register a mobile phone number with them. I told them I didn't have a mobile phone. The reply was that II would have to refuse access to my account until I got one. Just a small example and not even recent.
It doesn't always work even if you do have a mobile. A couple of years ago, while on holiday, I got an urgent surgical appointment from my local hospital that was texted to my mobile. The fact that we didn't have any reception around those parts didn't seem to have figured as a possibility with the NHS. I missed the appointment and got a proper telling-off.
But then, touchscreens and I are not really made for each other at the best of times. I have a condition known as zombie fingers - very dry or calloused fingertips that won't work a phone unless I lick them first. (Guitarists often get them, and carpenters apparently.) You'll see me out and about, desperately trying to swipe an incoming phone call, and quite often failing. Mobile parking apps are a perpetual nightmare because the price of failure is so high. (You get fined.)
Imagine, therefore, my chances of being able to communicate effectively with a touchscreen in my car? I can just about persuade the sound system in my car to obey me at the third or fourth desperate stab, perhaps by licking my fingers, but that's not exactly something I'd want to be doing at 60 mph. (Not least because it would scare everybody witless.) Nor would I feel very confident about driving any car where using the touchscreen was a non-negotiable part of using the controls.
So that's me marginalised, then? Ho hum, I suppose I'll have to get used to it?
BJ
Answer incoming calls with voice commands?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SAM0jBCkYFk
I ofter use speech to text on WhatsApp too, if that helps.