Quick and Dirty (ooh err Missus) & APPLE

Up to now I have posted quite long bloggs about things that impact on me / my life etc... but from now on I am going to try to do (more regular) quick and dirty bloggs about anything and everything.

Today it's the annoyance of Apple to MAKE me have 'things' on my iPhone I am never going to use.

There are 2 such items that currently irk me - the 'Newstand' icon which appeared with the last operating system upgrade and now (thanks for iOS6) the 'Passbook' icon.

Apparently 'Newstand' is imperative to my life and my use of my iPhone, because it holds all those subscription publications I pay for in 1 handy place - only I subscribe to nothing, nada, nowt - so it is totally useless to me.

The 'Passbook' holds all those smart phone boarding cards I need to travel on all those flights I take on a daily basis and are accepted by all those airlines I frequently use... Only although I am a lover of holidays and I do fly off to the sun every now and then, I have never had / used a smart phone boarding pass... and it also holds all those smart tickets to the cinema, theatre, concerts etc I have... only I don't. I have paper/card type tickets for all such events so again, useless.


I can not delete either of these useless icons. At least with the 'Passbook' thing I have consigned it to the 'Utilities' folder thing and will ignore it, the 'Newstand' is not so simple - it refuses to go into any folder, it has to have primary space on a home screen - so on my phone it sits oh home screen number 4 - alone and unused.

I've not even looked at the maps...



So there, you have it - lets see what the future brings ;-)