For most people, it seems that convenience and ubiquity ultimately win out.
Bottled water's main virtue, it seems, is convenience, especially for people at large in the city.
The appeal of Comcast's offering seems more convenience than anything else.
On Amazon in particular, one-click shopping and next-day delivery form a kind of Penn & Teller of impossible-seeming convenience, with a tap of the finger transforming a spontaneous desire into the desired object: a banana slicer, say, or a Harry Potter beach towel.
You can design payment systems that protect against fraud and yet preserve anonymity, just as you can design open systems or those that keep your identity secret unless the authorities demand that it be revealed.When it comes to trading convenience against privacy, most people seem to back convenience every time.
So far, Dashlane probably seems designed for convenience, and that's true.
This ghastly convenience seems to have been planned for officers' wives, defense workers, and other such peripatetics, but we have no doubt that it is in the cards for all of us sooner or later.
But for all age groups, convenience seems to have overtaken price as the main reason for shopping online.Much of the online shopping is heavily concentrated on a few sites.
Christian Kälin of Henley & Partners, a Swiss-based law firm specialising in what it terms "citizenship planning", says a more formal tolerance of dual nationality there is likely.For many ordinary citizens, dual passports still seem dodgy: a convenience for the cosmopolitan few or a sop to the menacing many, rather than a natural feature of a migratory world.
The menu invites diners to request the degree of spicy heat they want (in general, Tamarind's seasoning was mild), but this convenience seemed beside the point for food needing only better balanced seasoning and more careful application of sauces to be entirely satisfying.
Letting your bank handle credit card processing may seem convenient but that convenience comes at a price.
