• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    How do you separate the two? To me smartphones seem like the sort of thing that was always headed in a bad direction. It’s inherently a tracking device. Touchscreens are easy to use and intuitive but really slow and inefficient for most things that go beyond browsing/viewing content. It pushes you to get all your software from a centralized walled garden. If it weren’t for smartphones, the people who mostly only use smartphones probably wouldn’t be spending a lot of time on the internet, and that would be for the best.

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        13 hours ago

        Makes sense, though I meant that more in the sense of like, how can it be said that there is nothing wrong with the technology when it’s been designed around the profit motive.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      If it weren’t for smartphones, the people who mostly only use smartphones probably wouldn’t be spending a lot of time on the internet, and that would be for the best.

      Exactly. Eternal September was peanuts compared to smartphone connectivity.

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      21 hours ago

      How do you separate the two?

      A major change in how our economy works. No, I don’t expect this to actually happen in my lifetime.