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I don't understand how having faceid, a touchscreen, vibration, gps would manipulate my emotions. Makes no sense. Developers using these features to build app

I don't understand how having faceid, a touchscreen, vibration, gps would manipulate my emotions. Makes no sense. Developers using these features to build app that makes you addicted ? Yes. But these features in itself are not manipulatives or triggering reflexes. I just don't understand the author reasoning... I don't use addictive social media on my phone and when I receive notification, my phone makes a sound, it vibrates and yet I don't feel urged to look at it.

mrweasel 1y ago
I actively dislike my phone. It's an entirely to expensive platform that I "need" to own, to interact with certain parts of society. The screen is to small to be useful for media consumption, without making me sick. It's also to small to be useful as a web browser, except in an emergency. It is great to have GPS and mobile payments, and Uber if you're in the US as it's pretty much impossible to locate a regular taxi. Other than that it's ... for making phone calls, texting is done better view a desktop app, though I need the smartphone to activate the account (Signal). Claiming that the phone is manipulating is a bit of a stretch. One roundabout why I can see the phone manufacturers being complicit is in pushing what a phone can and should do. If you remove the manipulating apps, then you end up with people replacing their phone way less frequently. E.g. the iPhone 7 is still a good phone, it has texting (and iMessage or Signal), calling, security updates, notes and updated maps. It probably sucks at running Instagram and TikTok (though I'd assume it plays videos just fine). Apple just isn't really going to make a ton of that original sale anymore.
skeezyjefferson 1y ago
> I don't use addictive social media on my phone and when I receive notification, my phone makes a sound, it vibrates and yet I don't feel urged to look at it. the hysterical mob has decided it is literal crack rocks and EVERYONE ELSE cannot be trusted to not get hopelessly addicted to it, however they can use social media to of course decry its evils

mrweasel 1y ago

I actively dislike my phone. It's an entirely to expensive platform that I "need" to own, to interact with certain parts of society. The screen is to small to be useful for media consumption, without making me sick. It's also to small to be useful as a web browser, except in an emergency. It is great to have GPS and mobile payments, and Uber if you're in the US as it's pretty much impossible to locate a regular taxi. Other than that it's ... for making phone calls, texting is done better view a desktop app, though I need the smartphone to activate the account (Signal). Claiming that the phone is manipulating is a bit of a stretch. One roundabout why I can see the phone manufacturers being complicit is in pushing what a phone can and should do. If you remove the manipulating apps, then you end up with people replacing their phone way less frequently. E.g. the iPhone 7 is still a good phone, it has texting (and iMessage or Signal), calling, security updates, notes and updated maps. It probably sucks at running Instagram and TikTok (though I'd assume it plays videos just fine). Apple just isn't really going to make a ton of that original sale anymore.

skeezyjefferson 1y ago

> I don't use addictive social media on my phone and when I receive notification, my phone makes a sound, it vibrates and yet I don't feel urged to look at it. the hysterical mob has decided it is literal crack rocks and EVERYONE ELSE cannot be trusted to not get hopelessly addicted to it, however they can use social media to of course decry its evils