I still love that Connie Willis passage where she talks about an engineer saying the obvious reason people hate smartphones is they *work too well* and he's going to make a fortune marketing a new smartphone whose selling point is that it *doesn't work*https://twitter.com/qjurecic/status/1311766273928372225?s=20 …
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The push notifications, especially, just don't work If something you post should go viral, you just never find out about it If you don't actively decide to open up one of your apps you end up getting distracted doing other things and forgetting the app even exists
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"But Arthur this is obviously a joke, if you want a phone that doesn't do these things you can just turn those features off" Yeah, smart guy, and if you don't want to smoke the cigarettes inside a pack of cigarettes you can just leave the cellophane on and not open it
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I already have an android phone.
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