@DaasYochid first of all I appreciate the fact that you actually responded to my comments as opposed to the labeling that some other posters tend to do. The problem I’m referring to is not simply inconvenience. There is a well known study that was done on people who pirate music and they found that the main reason people pirated was not cost rather it was convenience. this is why itunes has been so successful. The reason why many people buy iphones is again because it is smooth and uncumbersome. There also have been many studies on how even changing a couple of seconds in a computers startup time had a disproportionately large affect on people. We are not talking about the same kind of annoyance – davening is difficult to do but it is not nearly as annoying as trying to use a smartphone where the touch screen doesnt work properly which i think is a more apt analogy. If there are real solutions created by the Jewish community with its multitude of needs in mind then maybe it is possible. However this has not been done that well in the past – the kosher phones in the US are a perfect example of a good idea which is poorly managed. It is highly unlikely that there will be many new ones created in the secular world based on the present attitude by tech companies.
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