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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 5 days ago (3 children)

How do you separate the two? To me smartphones seem like the sort of thing that was always headed in a bad direction. It's inherently a tracking device. Touchscreens are easy to use and intuitive but really slow and inefficient for most things that go beyond browsing/viewing content. It pushes you to get all your software from a centralized walled garden. If it weren't for smartphones, the people who mostly only use smartphones probably wouldn't be spending a lot of time on the internet, and that would be for the best.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 25 points 5 days ago (2 children)

How do you separate the two?

you end capitalism

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

The rest of the fucking owl moment

But I agree lol

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

Makes sense, though I meant that more in the sense of like, how can it be said that there is nothing wrong with the technology when it's been designed around the profit motive.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

If it weren't for smartphones, the people who mostly only use smartphones probably wouldn't be spending a lot of time on the internet, and that would be for the best.

Exactly. Eternal September was peanuts compared to smartphone connectivity.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 2 points 5 days ago

How do you separate the two?

A major change in how our economy works. No, I don’t expect this to actually happen in my lifetime.