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Trials and Tribulations of phones

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Amidst the monotonous routine of life, encounters with oldies do add a bit of humour. Not because they have a great sense of humour or anything like that, what I'm referring to are the situations that arise due to their difficulty in operating these tech devices; computers and smartphones to be precise. They say, "Charity begins at home". So I'll start with my own dad who has a different OS based phone. Let me disclose here that his OS is not-so-popular and not at all user-friendly. Poor he! He keeps on facing one problem or the other every week or so and he would have to ask me to fix them. Sometimes it's the app not being opened. So, I update them through their shitty app store. There are times when I'm unable to find one of the most popular apps on that store. I remember he had to shell out a few bucks also once at the dealer store to get the desired app running. At other times and places, it is quite common to find elderly asking how to save a number,