Wow, such a negative view. > Never before in history have 50, mostly male, 20-35 year old designers, living in California, working at 3 tech companies, influenced how a billion people spend their time. This is an incredibly specific statement that wouldn't be true if scaled back a bit. The result of this seems to be pure FUD. I have to say what an incredibly biased piece. The attention economy did not start with the…
Exactly. Religions have better track of lifes control.
Scaling back that statement would include more than religion. How about the disruption the automobile industry caused way back when?
> I have a plan and I execute it according to schedule This makes no sense. The single best thing about a phone is removing friction from the last mile and last fifteen minutes of meeting friends. Checking in and fine tuning last minute details is great for friendships. If someone changes venues on you, consider that maybe it accommodated the needs of other members of the group. If someone is late, it's not a problem…
As another replier said, everyone has different needs. > Checking in and fine tuning last minute details is great for friendships. I hate this culture of "checking in". If we agree to meet at place X and time T, is it so difficult to just ... actually be there? I remember the life in the pre-smartphone days when things were just that simple. Also, when arranging to meet at a place, I am usually specific. Like, "meet…
I've had friends call off a meeting because "I wasn't responding on the phone." Moron I'm driving or riding my bike of course I'm not responding. And you didn't call me so I couldn't tell you that, since you're afraid of talking to people over the phone.
My motorcycle is set up for hands free operation but phones still generally assume you have a screen active and shift into screen mode and then accept touches in my pocket which makes me pull over and fix the phone. Or simple shit like google not knowing how to "read hangouts" or "send hangout" but able to text. You can tell it's definitely an afterthought feature. I've spent some time getting that all configured but it's not ideal and doens't really survive new phones.
I actually am very far from addicted to my smartphone. I spend very little time trying to digest information on a 6" screen when I can wait till I get home and digest it on a 4K display and able to concentrate on my work. For me the most annoying thing is that other people expect me to be glued to my smartphone like them. They expect that I can be reachable at any hour, any minute, and always checking my messages. Pe…
I tend to leave my phone in my bag all day except to use 2-factor auth or something. I would rather stare out of the window on the train in the morning than at facebook or twitter. Instead of people using technology to magnify their lives, they are confining their lives to their phone.
> Instead of people using technology to magnify their lives, they are confining their lives to their phone. No, you're just jumping to conclusions that fit your imagined narrative. When I'm using my phone on the train, I'm going through my reading list or listening to podcasts. If I had a physical book in-hand, I bet you wouldn't jump to similar conclusions. Yet the activities are the same and the content is the same…
Back in my day, we happily stared out the window of our stagecoach at the countryside, and if we got bored, we made conversation or robbed a bank! It's interesting that the train, newspapers, magazines, handheld games, and phones are technology. They've all changed our lives in varying ways, to varying degrees. I love this stuff because it can make it easier to connect with other people. It can also be used in anti-social ways. Even now, we're on HN discussing this, and I'm doing it from my phone, as I'm sure some others are as well. We're no longer tied to occupying the same physical space to have a conversation, but a telephone also solves that. The telephone is synchronous, but written letters would solve that. Those aren't very fast, telegrams are quite a bit more involved, and computers used to sit on desks. Now I can walk through a park and read discussions like this, think about life, and still more or less carry on a conversation with other people from all over the world. It takes tons of infrastructure and countless technological innovations to make this even possible, but that's why I love technology.
I actually am very far from addicted to my smartphone. I spend very little time trying to digest information on a 6" screen when I can wait till I get home and digest it on a 4K display and able to concentrate on my work. For me the most annoying thing is that other people expect me to be glued to my smartphone like them. They expect that I can be reachable at any hour, any minute, and always checking my messages. Pe…
Exactly, there's a lot of social pressure, but at some point you have stand up for yourself. I refuse to use skype or any of these instant messaging bullshit apps as a matter of principle.
Too bad every interviewer and her cat wants you to call on Skype or Hangouts.
As I think and wonder sometimes: human race have some kind of "bug", we are not prepared for phones and notifications.
Sure in the same way that many people have an exploitable "bug" for slot machines, opioids, calorie-dense foods, etc. It will take a long time if ever for evolution to catch up.
I actually am very far from addicted to my smartphone. I spend very little time trying to digest information on a 6" screen when I can wait till I get home and digest it on a 4K display and able to concentrate on my work. For me the most annoying thing is that other people expect me to be glued to my smartphone like them. They expect that I can be reachable at any hour, any minute, and always checking my messages. Pe…
Exactly, there's a lot of social pressure, but at some point you have stand up for yourself. I refuse to use skype or any of these instant messaging bullshit apps as a matter of principle.
Yeah! I'm sticking with my horse drawn carriage! Down with these global warming inducing combustion engines vehicles! So much social pressure to use them. Why won't my work understand that it takes me 4hrs to commute by horse?! They are so totalitarian, requiring a car and all.
> I spend very little time trying to digest information on a 6" screen when I can wait till I get home and digest it on a 4K display and able to concentrate on my work. This is so important. Not only are larger screens better for content creation, they are better for consumption as well. Virtually everything I do on my phone is done so only because of circumstance--I am not close to my home workstation, office workst…
To counter this anecdote - my iPhone 7 is my primary computing device. It's the computer that's with me the most, and it's the one that I use the most. Sometimes I'll have my real computer with me and yet I still prefer the handheld form factor and the swipe interactions of iOS (especially when I'm consuming, rather than creating). It's mind blowing how many computing use cases my iPhone completely takes over for me.…
Have you tried Lightroom Mobile? It works pretty well for me. My editing is usually limited to cropping, white balance, exposure and colors, and I can do all of that on the phone.
> I spend very little time trying to digest information on a 6" screen when I can wait till I get home and digest it on a 4K display and able to concentrate on my work. This is so important. Not only are larger screens better for content creation, they are better for consumption as well. Virtually everything I do on my phone is done so only because of circumstance--I am not close to my home workstation, office workst…
The closest I have been to a "real computer" in days is using Remote Desktop to connect to one from my iPhone 7+. FWIW, I seriously did some simple video editing using Premiere Pro that I happily admit would have taken me much less time and would have been much more enjoyable to do at the computer... but then I would have had to be at the computer :/. I don't want to be "at my real computer", and I definitely do not…
Anecdotally, I've actually been driving down the road (passenger side), middle of the woods on the way to the beach, putting out a small sysadmin fire while on vacation (from my Android phone).
I know, I know - supposed to be on vacation - but I was just sitting there. And I fixed the issue too.
> I just love it how people jump to conclusions about what is going on with other people, based on cursory observation. If by "cursory" you mean "many years of close, and 24x7 observation, including of close relatives and friends", then what's not to love? It's not like people saying that are some tourists to Earth that have just some short-term cursory relationship with the "other people". At some point, there's eno…
Man I was in the Louve in 2001 and people were snapping tons of photos with their ~200x128 pixel phones instead of just looking at the painting. There were repros for sale reasonably right next to the real photo. Also that painting is impossible to see well due to the protection glass and there are so many better paintings just to the left or right of it, which I sadly couldn't get a good look at because everyone get…
The Louvre is one of those important institutions of mankind completely ruined by tourists. Unlike the Met or the Frick in New York, going in super early on a weekday doesn't even help. It's almost always packed.