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Ed
14 yrs ago
http://www.good.is/post/why-i-dumped-my-iphone-and-why-i-m-not-going-back/?utm_source=outbrain
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So true!
I can't go cold turkey, I like the conveniences. But I have cleared out all the games apps that were sucking my attention!
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The conveniences of the device outweigh the loss, you need to be disciplined however, no games or endless media, news, or social networking apps. The apps I have are currency convertor, conversion charts, weather, skype, Nike app for jogging and two news channels. I also have my entire music collection on the phone and thats it. If you already have a life you don't need all the crap that you can download, don't let it create a cyber existence for you. I often see couples in the airport lounge, sometimes even with their kids, and all are completely oblivious to one another, just transfixed on the minute screens of their individual pocket companions, whats the point of being together or traveling together, when you can probably exist with the device alone?
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Ed
14 yrs ago
I am with the author... I still use a simple small Nokia with an option that allows me to maintain my contacts in the cloud (technically a smartphone but not used as one)... I prefer to carry a book to fill empty time.... and I am online enough already so best to get away from the machine... and I prefer not to be rudely interrupting people at dinner etc... checking my email...
I do wonder how all of this connectivity is going to affect the next generation... will it decrease social interaction? And what benefits are most people getting - whenever I glance at someone's tablet computer on the bus or train, inevitably they are playing a game...
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Tune
14 yrs ago
'I do wonder how all of this connectivity is going to affect the next generation... will it decrease social interaction? And what benefits are most people getting - whenever I glance at someone's tablet computer on the bus or train, inevitably they are playing a game... '
1The same way those wicked libraries did after the invention of the printing press and the coming of the book.2 Not on mine sir- I use it for reading journals and ebooks- it certainly beats those smelly old books that draw on natural resources- and are equally as antisocial.
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I'm personally tired at looking at all the touchscreens. They all look the same to me now!
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Tune
13 yrs ago
Actually, I love books and keep many old ones- some from the 1940s. However, it's time to move on. Remember the Luddites?
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I agree with Tune. I often get on the MTR and shout,"Hello!" The iphoners look up and give me scowl look that I distracted them from their game, facebook, what ever. They shrink back. I just think all those people, often jammed in, that there's such an opportunity to communicate to a large group. But I usually get the look of,"did some one fart?"
Go to any Internet bar in China, they are usually big, maybe 2000 people in there playing games and on QQ chat. They run 24 hours a day. Why chat with the person next to you? You can chat to some one removed. No to the person next to you. I used to do that, talk to the people next to me. I was one of the very few.
I often read my book on the MTR and get some funny looks. I think they'd prefer me to have an iPad or iPhone or Android, but not a book!
I do have a smart phone and it some how connects itself to the net and I have to disconnect it, often. There is no way I can actually set it up so that it can't connect. I've looked every where on the net, to no result.
I'm an oldie and I do want to get an Android but just to have the connects as I need them, I'd rather look out the window, look at the people, look down the street then run the blind walk that phoners walk. Like today I was going to my local mtr and a girl walked past me totally into her iPhone. She walked in right in front of me and then proceeded to zig zag stopping me from getting past, all the while iPhoning. Hong Kong local people do that all the time without an iPhone or similar gadget, but when they are in there phone world they are just not there, with phones in their ears, you got give them a bump.
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selda
13 yrs ago
i hate the idea of having my peace disturbed and interrupted by hyper-connectivity, I choose to be connected no more than two hours a day, so that i can do something else with my time, without any distractions.I keep my laptop at home, and when i am out i use a very old, basic Nokia without internet.
As to books, i prefer paper because matter is more difficult to destroy than information...if books were only released in electronic format, those files could be easily erased by censors (remember the Nazi burning books? Their job would be easier if there were only files to destroy rather than hundreds of thousands of copies of a book!) Also, i am afraid that after a few years those e-books would become unreadable because technology changes at a very fast pace, and people would be forced to buy yet another gadget to convert those files. For instance, I can no longer watch my VHS tapes, and i certainly don't want the same to happen to my books. We can still read books published century ago...what will happen to e-books in a few decades time? I want to be able to pass my library to friends and family when i pass away. I still treasure some books that belonged to my grandma, and no, you cannot get them on kindle!
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I have to agree with Whitemischief.
The conveniences of the device outweigh the loss.
I love my phone and I still read books, even whilst I fill empty time.
I never check email whilst at dinner and never rudely interrupt people at a social gathering.
But then, I own it.........it doesnt own me!!!!!
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agree with brightspark .......... We own the device and its us to manage it ....... Pple who plays games on it too often just dont manage well or have other priorities ...... Pple who hate the device is like saying I HATE competition, I hate having info on the go, I hate social networking etc ......... We live in a competitive world getting more competitive.
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I just prefer the old Nokia style phones, don't fancy iphones to much.
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Ed
13 yrs ago
Is 2012 the year to hang up the phone?
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/07/opinion/greene-cell-phone-driving/index.html?hpt=hp_mid
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Ed
13 yrs ago
Texting While Walking
Don't the streets seem to be clogged by such people wandering about in another world oblivious and without consideration for others...
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2012/01/08/opinion/100000001269189/texting-while-walking.html?nl=opinion&emc=tya1
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Ed
13 yrs ago
Dropping Out of the News
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/02/dropping-out-of-the-news/253147/
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Ed
13 yrs ago
How phones became Frankenstein's monster
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/28/opinion/mobile-frankenstein-keen/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
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