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Going gray for smartphone addiction

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Re: Going gray for smartphone addiction

#5

Post by berberous »

Looks interesting, but it seems to be a landing page to gauge interest with no app available yet.

Edit: To be clear, I set my phone to grayscale a little while ago, so I'm aware that's built in to iOS. I think the additional features that this app idea is proposing on top of that feature are great, but it seems like the app does not yet exist (and perhaps not possible with iOS's limitations).

Re: Going gray for smartphone addiction

#6

Post by dkyc »

Took me a while to get what this app does, maybe it would be a better idea to link to their homepage: https://gogray.today/

> What was bright and shiny was now dull and boring. It's like turning your favourite dessert into broccoli.

This fantastic analogy it was sold me on signing up, good copywriting:

Re: Going gray for smartphone addiction

#7

Post by wyldfire »

berberous wrote: post #5

Looks interesting, but it seems to be a landing page to gauge interest with no app available yet. Edit: To be clear, I set my phone to grayscale a little while ago, so I'm aware that's built in to iOS. I think the additional features that this app idea is proposing on top of that feature are great, but it seems like the app does not yet exist (and perhaps not possible with iOS's limitations).

Not to mention that it's not clear at all that this is intended to de-feature your phone in order to make you use it less.

It's presumed that you have that context before you get here, I guess.

Re: Going gray for smartphone addiction

#8

Post by atareh »

dkyc wrote: post #6

Took me a while to get what this app does, maybe it would be a better idea to link to their homepage: https://gogray.today/ > What was bright and shiny was now dull and boring. It's like turning your favourite dessert into broccoli. This fantastic analogy it was sold me on signing up, good copywriting:

sorry about that! you are definitely right.

and thanks, thought of that myself :)

Re: Going gray for smartphone addiction

#9

Post by yumaikas »

berberous wrote: post #5

Looks interesting, but it seems to be a landing page to gauge interest with no app available yet. Edit: To be clear, I set my phone to grayscale a little while ago, so I'm aware that's built in to iOS. I think the additional features that this app idea is proposing on top of that feature are great, but it seems like the app does not yet exist (and perhaps not possible with iOS's limitations).

They provide workable instructions for creating this effect on Andriod and iOS, as it doesn't require an app as such.

If an app does come out of this, it'll probably be more about setting greyscale for different other apps.

Re: Going gray for smartphone addiction

#10

Post by outsidetheparty »

atareh wrote: post #2

thought this was timely to post due to the recent article in NYTimes about going grayscale for phone addiction https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/technology/grayscale-phon...

Thanks for the explanatory article; just reading the linked site left me scratching my head wondering what the heck putting my phone in grayscale mode would have to do with "phone addiction".

I'm still not convinced it makes much sense, but at least it's not totally random....

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