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apple is considering the dumbing down phone.
The iDumb Pro Max flip phone with next gen T9, starting at $1399
I love smartphones. Instead of having to buy books, I can just pirate like thousands of epubs to put in my pocket and I'm effectivly carrying a bookshelf with me.
I ain't carrying a fucking book, too heavy. (Also, yaRrr ๐ดโโ ๏ธ)
Edit: Also, audiobooks.
I wish popular cell phones would offer an eink option. I know there are 1-2 phones out there, but they always seem to be on some ancient version of Android.
If my kindle played audio files / podcasts that would be half of what I use it for.
I'm all for reexamining how we use our time and I'm definitely trying to get myself off always looking St my phone when I'm not doing anything.
But why does that mean buying a new product? You can change your behavior by just not looking at those things. And when you do legitimately need to have your phone to check something, you can develop the discipline to do that one thing and then put it away. Just seems like the obvious move.
I agree with you in concept, but I think in practice people struggle with the self discipline, and that's kind of the fundamental problem with apps (and particularly algorithm-based social media). I've set timers to limit my usage of certain apps, including my Lemmy app, to encourage mindful use, but I can understand why someone might want or need more of an enforced limitation.
You might not replace your current phone with a "dumb" device, but when it's time to get a new device eventually, you could ask yourself if less-smart device might meet both your functional and other needs.
Edit: I guess to me this is kind of like: why are people overweight? They can just not eat as much. And while that's technically true - and advice I follow - it's apparently not that easy for everyone. If it was, we wouldn't see problems as pervasively as we do.
Nope. Those are going to be fake dumbphones.
Yea, "dumbphones" is just a smartphone os with stripped out features but same spying
No. It's just a fad