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I almost never take mine with me places, unless I am expecting to take a call while out. I am aware I'm less common than I used to be in this regard, but I'm p

I almost never take mine with me places, unless I am expecting to take a call while out. I am aware I'm less common than I used to be in this regard, but I'm pretty sure a significant chunk of people still do this, though probably the majority by now carry them more often than not. In any case, people leave their cellular phones home more than often enough for a device that lives in clothing to provide substantially more availability.

paxys 6y ago
People not carrying phones outside the house isn't just less common, it's an absolutely tiny edge case which no company is going to redesign their products around.
- TacticalCoder 6y ago
  I don't know if it's that tiny. Like GP (I don't know why he's downvoted) I do own a smartphone but I rarely take it with me when I leave the house. And when I do, it usually stays in the car. I know several people who, like me, are using their smartphones basically only for messaging apps and who just let their smartphone here or there at home and check them only once or twice a day (unless it rings which, arguably, is the device's most interesting use case). Life is really totally fine when lived without carrying a smartphone around all the time. It also gives my 6 years old an example of someone she can definitely relates to who doesn't use a smartphone all the time. I'm not a luddite: but between the 38" monitor at home and the car's navi system, I simply honestly don't have much need for a smartphone. Now I gotta say this: the demographic that owns a smartphone but doesn't feel the love to the point of living 24/7 with it is probably not the demographic that is going to fancy a tiny electronic device in their shoes and underwear ; )
- pmontra 6y ago
  I don't carry my phone when I go biking. It's either in a plastic bag in one of my rear pockets (the bag is because sweat would damage the phone) or in a phone holder on the handlebar. In both locations the phone is useless to take pictures by tapping a button somewhere on my clothes (same problem with sweat) or on the bike. Of course I don't spend many hours cycling, no more than 12 per week. Still not an insignificant fraction of the time I'm outside my home. I wonder how that "tap the button and take a picture" works. How do you point the camera to the subject, where is the camera? Not on the phone in my pocket or in a locker at the soccer field.
jacobr1 6y ago
There seem to have been a numbers of surveys of this, most citing Pew research, but I couldn't actually find a pew study to confirm it. I did find thus study that was a survey of grocery users: https://www.supermarketnews.com/consumer-trends/nine-10-grocery-shoppers-use-smartphone-store https://www.supermarketnews.com/consumer-trends/nine-10-groc... It shows 89% of those survey use the phone in the grocery store. Separately pew estimates 81% smartphone ownership rates in the US. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/ https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/

paxys 6y ago

People not carrying phones outside the house isn't just less common, it's an absolutely tiny edge case which no company is going to redesign their products around.

TacticalCoder 6y ago
I don't know if it's that tiny. Like GP (I don't know why he's downvoted) I do own a smartphone but I rarely take it with me when I leave the house. And when I do, it usually stays in the car. I know several people who, like me, are using their smartphones basically only for messaging apps and who just let their smartphone here or there at home and check them only once or twice a day (unless it rings which, arguably, is the device's most interesting use case). Life is really totally fine when lived without carrying a smartphone around all the time. It also gives my 6 years old an example of someone she can definitely relates to who doesn't use a smartphone all the time. I'm not a luddite: but between the 38" monitor at home and the car's navi system, I simply honestly don't have much need for a smartphone. Now I gotta say this: the demographic that owns a smartphone but doesn't feel the love to the point of living 24/7 with it is probably not the demographic that is going to fancy a tiny electronic device in their shoes and underwear ; )
pmontra 6y ago
I don't carry my phone when I go biking. It's either in a plastic bag in one of my rear pockets (the bag is because sweat would damage the phone) or in a phone holder on the handlebar. In both locations the phone is useless to take pictures by tapping a button somewhere on my clothes (same problem with sweat) or on the bike. Of course I don't spend many hours cycling, no more than 12 per week. Still not an insignificant fraction of the time I'm outside my home. I wonder how that "tap the button and take a picture" works. How do you point the camera to the subject, where is the camera? Not on the phone in my pocket or in a locker at the soccer field.

jacobr1 6y ago

There seem to have been a numbers of surveys of this, most citing Pew research, but I couldn't actually find a pew study to confirm it. I did find thus study that was a survey of grocery users: https://www.supermarketnews.com/consumer-trends/nine-10-grocery-shoppers-use-smartphone-store https://www.supermarketnews.com/consumer-trends/nine-10-groc... It shows 89% of those survey use the phone in the grocery store. Separately pew estimates 81% smartphone ownership rates in the US. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/ https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/