A DAY AT T-MOBILE FOLLOWED BY THE STEVE DAVIDOWSKI TRIO
Thursday I spent most of the day driving to T-Mobile in Asheville to transfer my data from my iPhone 16 Pro Max to my brand new iPhone 17 Pro Max. Anyone who has paid attention to the hype in Apple’s September announcement of their new iPhones might wonder why I’m trading up, at considerable expense from the 16 to the 17 when the 17 is not that much different from the 16. Three reasons. One is because photography is one of the things that stimulates me and keeps me going in old age and I’ve settled on the iPhone as my camera of choice, which I know doesn’t have quite the sharpness of my Olympus camera and set of lenses, but is always with me. The second reason is that the iPhone is almost invisible, barely noticed when I take photographs, shooting onehandedly from the hip rather than awkwardly holding up with both hands while framing in the screen. No one knows I am taking photographs. The third reason is because the changes made since last year are ones that really matter to me. On the 16 Pro Max the battery ran out when I was still photographing, on warm days with constant shooting the iPhone got hot and the screen would black out, and I could not photograph people unnoticed from a distance because the zoom was too weak and the quality of zoomed photos not so good. Those three things have changed on the 17 Pro Max.
Another justification is that I use the iPhone constantly for all kinds of things and have it with me all day. I feel naked if I don’t have it. It is not an expensive toy that I rarely use, it is an inexpensive device that I use all the time. It cost about the price of a cup of cafe coffee per day. I would much prefer to have the iPhone and can make my own coffee.
That is the justification. But I was not prepared for how long it would take to transfer my data from the old phone to the new found. The first hurdle was a security feature that insisted that I wait one hour after starting the process to continue. The second was that I had a good deal of data on the phone, 303,000 photographs and movies among other things. I left Marshal for the T-Mobile Store are 11:30 a.m. and got back to Marshall, 40 minutes each direction, at 6:30 p.m., seven hours.
When I got back Steve Davidowski was playing jazz on the keyboard with his trio at Zadie’s. Steve toured the country with bands in the 70’s and 80’s but now is settled in Marshall. Susie knows him, everyone in Marshall knows him, I see him around every day. Knowing people who perform is one of the reasons I moved to Marshall.
STEVE DAVIDOWSKI TRIO
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