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That's an interesting input. I have a guess why you'd say that, but I rather ask, genuinely, why do you think it's a "garbage technology"?
by kmarc 2y ago
That's an interesting input. I have a guess why you'd say that, but I rather ask, genuinely, why do you think it's a "garbage technology"?
- itomato 2y agoInequitably serving the maker, advertisers, service providers and back door entities makes it damnable. Garbage is being sincerely kind.
- qsort 2y agoCopy-pasting from above: > I guess my point is more that I wish the communication styles enabled by smartphones and the social expectations they carry weren't the norm. I'm not even really sure what I would do if I could wish my own phone into existence. I also broadly agree with the usual laundry list of complaints: closed platforms, surveillance, ads, lack of innovation, smartphones being more like status symbols than actual pieces of technology.
- kmarc 2y agoI see, thanks. I agree all of that. Usage patterns are garbage. But still, incredible technology, squeezed in a tiny box.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y agoIt's a pocket-sized "personal computer" bundled with a cellular phone. But it is designed to be "impossible" for the owner to exercise control over it. Garbage. Of course, for the companies that control these "smartphones", they are not garbage.