***** RANT TIME read at your own risk RANT TIME *****
Reading an article by a guy who is going to hit 10 years of daily journaling. Ten years! Nice work writer! (no names here, this guy has lots of company) He then goes into how he got started and what kept him going. Write a little bit every day. It can be a line. Do not set your expectation high, no pages a day to journal just get out some lines about your day or whatever you want to write about. (Sounds familiar does it not?) Then nearing the close of the article he gives advice. Right after “Set realistic constraints …” he writes “Use Day One.” What is Day One? it is an app for your iPhone. Only for your iPhone.
This is when I got rumbling. iPhones have, at best, a 20% market share. This says that 80% of his people reading his blogs don’t have the tool he recommends. He then goes on to three bullet points about using Day One. He follows this with “If you’re not writing every day, try more constraints not more technology.” Right after what is, so far, 60% technology recommendations. Like so many others he approaches the world as if they too use iPhone as a platform. I understand that Apple buys a lot of placement. I get it. But if you are writing something for all people you need to consider them, all of them. Most of them do not use iPhones. AND, if you are an Android user, don’t forget the people with iPhones. There are not that many of them but there are enough of them to be considered.
*****END OF RANT you are welcome to come back to life RANT END ***
— MichaelRpdx :: ih3k
PS, If you are counting words in a document, do you count every five characters, like they do for typing, or the individual bits, like a computer does? Curiosity cares.