Still use a candy bar phone, too. Never "upgraded" to all that smart nonsense.
I sit in front of a real computer all day. I don't also need a limited pseudo computer the size of a brick in my pocket. I like to just leave it all behind when I leave the house.
It's a computer that's harder to use, performs worse, is a walled garden where some corporation determines what you're allowed to do, many cost more than a desktop PC and the app ecosystem is a cancerous mess of censorship, ads and microtransactions.
I have the real thing. I don't need a watered down copy.
A smartphone isn’t supposed to be a replacement for a home PC, it allows me the convenience to do everything I would reasonably want to do on a PC from a plane, uber, the front seat of my car, at seconds notice with a device that literally fits in my pocket.
The advantages FAR outweigh any perceived disadvantage.
Apple and Google controlling what you are allowed to do on your own device is more than perceived. Just ask Gab, Parler and all the other apps that got removed for political reasons.
Still use a candy bar phone, too. Never "upgraded" to all that smart nonsense.
I sit in front of a real computer all day. I don't also need a limited pseudo computer the size of a brick in my pocket. I like to just leave it all behind when I leave the house.
Counter argument: I gain more from the use of a smart phone than it can harm me in any reasonable realm of likelihood.
This sounds like a boomer argument akin to leftists decrying “climate change”
It' doesn't "harm" me. It's just useless to me.
It's a computer that's harder to use, performs worse, is a walled garden where some corporation determines what you're allowed to do, many cost more than a desktop PC and the app ecosystem is a cancerous mess of censorship, ads and microtransactions.
I have the real thing. I don't need a watered down copy.
A smartphone isn’t supposed to be a replacement for a home PC, it allows me the convenience to do everything I would reasonably want to do on a PC from a plane, uber, the front seat of my car, at seconds notice with a device that literally fits in my pocket.
The advantages FAR outweigh any perceived disadvantage.
Apple and Google controlling what you are allowed to do on your own device is more than perceived. Just ask Gab, Parler and all the other apps that got removed for political reasons.