Nobody is engaged with their phone. Their engaged with their SO, and use their phone to reach them. There are no engaging apps on the iOS at all. Name one "killer app" for iPhone, and it would probably be Google Maps, which is of course available on most devices already. (It's been on PalmOS almost a decade ago.) Wow, but it's on iPhone and somehow that's a technological achievement? So what if people can pull data through their phones now at a rate that is comparable to actual daily usage. That is not an achievement, that's just another spin around the sink drain. Putting another layer of abstraction and metadata around it just allows you to control the water's path down the drain.
This is fine, because it's just supposed to be a phone, not a iPod, a phone, and an "Internet communications device" all in one. Nobody who does serious anything does anything serious on the iPhone other than talk or reply to emails like "ok I read this", (or just use it as a social signal).
I feel like all this talk is just a bunch of old money circling the drain of greed that Apple pulled the plug of. People think somehow that if they put the data in the cloud, they'll stop piracy, stop theft and stop deflationary pressures of all the air finally being deflated out the 10,000 year old bullshit-idea economy. The reality, the price of ideas is finally reaching the equilibrium price, nothing, and everyone just keeps fooling themselves that somehow this is for the best, and not the same thing that happened with Microsoft on desktops or at IBM so long ago. Someone's idea that we all are stuck in, but it's just one idea, can we please stop trying it and maybe go for something new, something that actually approves on the printing press instead of emulating it?
>Nobody is engaged with their phone. Their engaged with their SO, and use their phone to reach them.
Actually a current problem is that people are TOO engaged with their phones, including in social situations where they should be paying attention to their company.
>There are no engaging apps on the iOS at all. Name one "killer app" for iPhone, and it would probably be Google Maps
That's an interesting, if kooky idea, but totally on the outlier side (if you're from an older demographic it might be understandable).
iPhone (and Android) users have apps they find very enganging apps that they spends hours on end with them.
From games like Angry Birds to Instagram, including various clients for stuff like Twitter, apps like Omni's GTD stuff, Paper, and lots more besides.
And if you ask (hobby) musicians and graphic designers around (which are in the million), you'll find they spends tons of time with stuff like music apps and paint apps.
>Nobody who does serious anything does anything serious on the iPhone other than talk or reply to emails like "ok I read this", (or just use it as a social signal).
Nobody is engaged with their phone. Their engaged with their SO, and use their phone to reach them. There are no engaging apps on the iOS at all.
My son, and millions of others, who continue to feed the coffers of such companies as Supercell, Rovio, etc, demonstrate to me that something is very engaging with their iOS device and apps.
This is fine, because it's just supposed to be a phone, not a iPod, a phone, and an "Internet communications device" all in one. Nobody who does serious anything does anything serious on the iPhone other than talk or reply to emails like "ok I read this", (or just use it as a social signal).
I feel like all this talk is just a bunch of old money circling the drain of greed that Apple pulled the plug of. People think somehow that if they put the data in the cloud, they'll stop piracy, stop theft and stop deflationary pressures of all the air finally being deflated out the 10,000 year old bullshit-idea economy. The reality, the price of ideas is finally reaching the equilibrium price, nothing, and everyone just keeps fooling themselves that somehow this is for the best, and not the same thing that happened with Microsoft on desktops or at IBM so long ago. Someone's idea that we all are stuck in, but it's just one idea, can we please stop trying it and maybe go for something new, something that actually approves on the printing press instead of emulating it?