iPhone is designed to be as addictive as crack cocaine by the best Computer Science PhDs in the world. It would be hard to resist that. While I am not ready to produce a moral judgement on that, I do think it’s a real problem.
"Earlier this year, I carried out an fMRI experiment to find out whether iPhones were really, truly addictive, no less so than alcohol, cocaine, shopping or video games. In conjunction with the San Diego-based firm MindSign Neuromarketing, I enlisted eight men and eight women between the ages of 18 and 25. Our 16 subjects were exposed separately to audio and to video of a ringing and vibrating iPhone.
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In short, the subjects didn’t demonstrate the classic brain-based signs of addiction. Instead, they loved their iPhones."
Fanboism to a whole new level. I really like my iPhone a lot, but I'm not sure if I "like like" my iPhone.
I think there is quite a bit of merit to this. My wife and I hardly open our laptops at home anymore. The iPhone allows us to do most of what we need to do on the Internet without the dead weight and overhead of a full blown laptop.
A netbook is out of the question, as the keyboard is a pain compared to the iPhone; we have plenty of practice on the virtual keyboard from texting, and the autocorrect (for the most part) works well. The connectivity isn't bound to WiFi, and the cost is something we've built into our monthly bills. Being 'always-on' is something we take for granted, but it really makes the experience that much more immersive.
Funny thing is the killer feature of the iPhone is not that it has a phone. It's that it is a decent portable pocket internet tablet with edge/3g/wifi.
The fact it's called the i"Phone" is quite weird in a way I think, as I'm sure 90% of the usage on it is not phone related for most people. I had mine a couple of weeks before I used it for making a voice call...
So I see it more as a "How can we make a cool pocket macbook which has a killer browser" rather than how to save the iPod. After all, no other mobile browser can compete at the moment.
Totally agree. I have an eee (that sits around doing nothing now honestly) and lust and Iphone (damn you sprint for sucking so many donkey balls that you don't need to eat for years).
The Iphone is like "whabam" internet at the dinner table to settle the arguement of who starred in some movie.
The eee is "look at me I have a cute small computer."
It hit me during a particularly stressful work period about a year ago that this device doesn't bring any happiness to my life and only brings anxiety, stress and saps my energy like a parasite.
Once that stressful period was over the feeling didn't go away though and now I can't even get rid of it because all my friends use apps to communicate rather than SMS so it's either I allow this parasite in my life or I just go disconnect almost completely.
and I don't think what I'm saying is ridiculous and I think Apple knows its bad otherwise they wouldn't be creating things like screentime tracking and focus modes.
The iPhone is unironically the greatest product in human history. It's the most important piece of belonging in a persons life and it's the last thing they'll give up. They can be one misstep away from homelessness but they still buy a new iPhone. This gives Apple an incredible amount of power. The iPhone has built up a ton of goodwill that extends to everything Apple sells.
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