Posted on 01/26/2019 11:03:23 AM PST by Menehune56
Smartphones are our constant companions. For many of us, their glowing screens are a ubiquitous presence, drawing us in with endless diversions, like the warm ping of social approval delivered in the forms of likes and retweets, and the algorithmically amplified outrage of the latest “breaking” news or controversy. They’re in our hands, as soon as we wake, and command our attention until the final moments before we fall asleep. Steve Jobs would not approve.
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Steve Jobs was a cultist. He would not only approve he would take advantage of it even further.
Smart phones for dumb people.
Heh, give that Apple’s innovative capabilities appear to have dropped to the intellectual level of Occasional Cortex, perhaps this will be a self-fixing problem. (I’m all Apple, but am not even interested in visiting the Apple store anymore.)
I hate my iPhone, and despise all smart phones. I had to upgrade to one though because someone in my neighborhood was using a network booster, and it was interfering with me making calls, and manually updating my roaming capabilities on my 3G phone. An icon for it showed up on my screen one day, and in order for it to drop off the screen, and be able to update my roaming, and not have my calls interfered with, I had to drive three blocks from my house.
Smart phones create dumb and ignorant people!
“Smart phones for dumb people.”
What is your point?
My iPhone is a computer that makes calls. I don’t have Facebook or twitter. I love having internet connection everywhere. It doesn’t control me. It is a tool
My oldest son, now 52 was an Apple user for a very long time. He even became an official Apple Tech. He turned me onto Apple computers. But he got tired them moving away from the computer part of the company, and into other devices. And I think he got fed up with Apple’s restriction of using some 3 party software. About the same time the new job he took used nothing but PC’s. So he bought himself a couple of them, and uses Linux on all of them. He’s a graphic designer, and video creator for the company, and has adjusted without any problem to using Windows, and whatever software he relies on to do his job. I don’t know where he got his ability for technical stuff, but it wasn’t from me. The kid amazes me, because it was all self-taught. There were no computer classes back when he went to college.
“Smart phones create dumb and ignorant people! “
Smart phones create dumb posts like yours.
“There were no computer classes back when he went to college.”
How old is he? I took a computer class my freshman year 1965!
“I hate my iPhone, and despise all smart phones. “
Man, chill!
It is always easy to say what a dead man thought.
just saying
such a bogus article.... like saying the people who created the medicine to treat hypertension never intended it would also be sold under the label “viagra.” The same group of Apple Engineers led by the CTO who perfected IOS also created Siri... Steve wouldn’t have approved? They might as well have written, the IPOD was never meant to make phone calls.
Jobs called it ‘the internet in your pocket’.
While I agree with most of the points made by the gentleman who penned the article, I would ask him one question. Can you name any great invention whereby the inventor thought it would be used for one thing and that is the only thing it would ever be used for? My point is that all great inventions bring on a life of their own and spawn things in new directions that the inventor could never foresee. An example would be Alfred Nobel. He invented dynamite because it was safer and easier to handle than nitroglycerin. His original intention for it was to be used in mining and building. How did that work out? Gunpowder was originally invented by the Chinese for use in fireworks for their celebrations, how did that work out?
Again, I agree with the articles intentions. I have an Iphone XR currently. It is my choice whether I let it control me or I control it. I choose to control it and use it but not let it run my life. An Iphone is a tool like a gun or multiple other things in our lives. It’s neither good nor bad.
I started out with a sack phone in 1989
Suddenly freed from knowing where payphones were
Switched to iPhone, amazed by extended capabilities
Virtually all smart phone models have mimicked the iPhone
Some very well, and very successfully.
But I’ve been, for want of a better word, grateful
For Apple I introducing the paradigm shift
Of a genuinely useful pocket computer
Worked with computers since 1972, so I have a long memory
I’m a woman, and I promise I won’t beat mine to death with a hammer like Hillary.
I am typing this on a really nice MacBook pro, but the newest MacBook air has no better capabilities. Apple has completely stopped attracting existing computer customers from upgrading from old overpriced models to new overpriced models. The local Microcenter has the newest models at $200 off and they still aren't selling.
I don't know as much about phones but I have an iPhone 8 and an Samsung. The Samsung is a garbage pit of Google, Samsung and Sprint software which is 99% useless (other than sucking power). The iPhone was overpriced even refurbished. The iPhone has nicer app consistency but the apps are almost always "dumber" compared to the android third party apps.
He was born in 1966, but there were no graphic arts computer courses back then. And what universe did you go to school in? I graduated from high school in Rochester, New York in 1965, and we had nothing like that. We were still using standard typewriters, carbon paper, and white out...and transistor radios.
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