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  • From: Charlie Cameron <cc77380 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Square up
  • Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:03:35 -0600



Shawnee Flowerfarmer <farmingflowers AT hotmail.com> wrote:

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>Tooo funny..."I've drunk the Apple Juice". We are all muddling through
>this communications technology transition-rethinking, relearning,
>reconsidering how we do, what we need to do, what we might yet do with the
>food supply. We are New Millennium pioneers. For some people the new media
>may not be appropriate-or cost effective-for awhile yet. The important
>thing is to keep an open mind, check it out. I don't wait for an immediate
>use to go to the next technology level; I've learned to do valuable things
>that I didn't see a need for until the technology gave me new eyes.
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>Shawnee, zone 5, committed geek
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>To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
>From: growbd AT aol.com
>Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:43:59 -0500
>Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Square up
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>I pay $70 a month ($840/year) for my AT&T iPhone plan, which includes 200 MB
>of data. I have exceeded that twice and got charged an additional $15 for
>an additional 200 MB. If I decide to go with Square Up, I'll need to bump
>it up to their 2 GB data plan for $25/month ($80/month total)...
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>...UNLESS the market I'm planning to sell at is within a free wifi network.
>If so, all the data transfer I use will not count against my plan.
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>This is not a horrifying amount to me. I was paying about $125/month when I
>was on Verizon using a Blackberry. The iPhone is so superior to the
>Blackberry model I had that putting them in the same sentence seems
>ridiculous. The lower price is, in part, because my partner and I have a
>Family plan.
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>I use data all the time. I check my email when I'm waiting in a line, I
>text my beau about what he wants for dinner, when someone wonders the name
>of the actor who played Gidget's Dad I google it so we have the answer right
>away, I stream radio stations from around the world. I'm one of those
>people...though I don't use it when I could be having a conversation with a
>live person in front of me, while I'm driving or when I'm walking down a
>crowded sidewalk in the city.
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>So it is not a leap price-wise for me to accommodate something like Square
>Up. I can understand how it might be a shock to see what the rest of us are
>spending if you haven't been using a smart phone! I would just say that if
>you get a data plan and an iPhone ( have also heard great things about the
>Androids...but I've drunk the Apple juice! ) you WILL use it for more than
>taking credit cards at market and doing AgSquared updates!
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>I am a beekeeper too. I don't think there is clear evidence that cell phone
>signals interfere with them. If they do, it's likely to be the soup of
>signals we're all moving through everywhere we go (especially here in the
>densely populated northeast) rather than the particular single signal coming
>into and going out of a phone. I am willing to be proven wrong about this
>and would absolutely appreciate some links to info that would convince me to
>turn my phone off in the field. I love the little ladies and would not have
>a problem turning it off if it would make their lives better.
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>Best,
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>Deb
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>Sleepy Hollow NY, where we got another 5+ inches of snow last night
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