I used to swap my phone every 2 years, but I don't anymore. I used to also flip back and forth between Android and iOS, but don't do that anymore either. Honestly, I don't care about the endless churn of devices anymore. At the end of the day, it's a phone. It makes calls and sends texts. If I want to take a photo, I'm still going to grab a camera. If I want to play a game, I'm still going to grab something like my Switch, Smart phones do everything a little, but they aren't the best at any of it. We've just gotten so used to the convenience that we're willing to put up with doing everything on a 6" screen in a very mediocre way. And that's not even going into the rampant data mining and corporate surveillance that comes with keeping a small computer with a GPS and modem in our pockets. Taking it everywhere we go and using it for everything we do.

Smartphones have become a ball and chain.

Their use is so ubiquitous, so expected, that it's become the odd person that doesn't use one.

it's expected whenever we do anything we'll use the phone app for it. And everything has an app.

It's so bad one can feel lost if they don't bring a smartphone with them everywhere, often checking it or posting from it several times an hour, every day, for years.

It's amazing to think 15 years ago, most people didn't use them.

Just 15 years.

People are starting to shed their smartphones again now. The younger folks. Though for different reasons than I consider doing it.

I want to for privacy, they want to for mental health, we're both right.

The being constantly available is a drain. And being constantly surveilled a threat. Smartphones are the penultimate form of both these things.

They are our modern day Tron disks. Everything we do or learn we imprint on them.

And through them we are devoured, dissected, and sold.

But people love them, defend them, argue over who has the better screen, camera, etc.

No one wants to think about the elephant in the room. No one dares.

We warship the tech giants that would sell our souls if they could find a way to data mine them.

They make millions off our data, while they charge us thousands for the right to have our privacy taken away.

This is the state of smart everything in 2024.

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