I think you expressed my frustration with today's smartphones significantly more clearly than I could. Thank you! I've been using smartphones since 2003. Smart

I think you expressed my frustration with today's smartphones significantly more clearly than I could. Thank you! I've been using smartphones since 2003. Smartphones prior to the iPhone were tools through and through. They were designed to be communicators, or maps, or, sometimes, actual phones. Texting with T9 with feature phones was definitely popular, but they were still very limited in capability. I don't think the iPhone was borne to become an addictive consumption machine. I think it was created to make smartphones more accessible. It succeeded at doing that. Great things exist today because of the iPhone. Unfortunately, there will always be people who are out to make money no matter the cost, and I don't think anyone knew or foresaw the consequences of long-term phone use that exist today.