Why I don't like smartphones

I don't really see how some of his points support his position. e.g. I don't own a smartphone, because it's a consumption device rather than both consumption and production, is just silly. So is a photoalbum, so is a book, so is a TV, so is a music player. A smartphone is all in one and it's incredibly useful. Beyond that, it is in ways a production device. It's a messaging device, a photo and video taking device, it's great…

> They have ruined web design. But I should probably write a whole article on that. I sure am looking forward to that article, from where I'm sitting they absolutely saved web design. Before mobile, I absolutely could not get any designer to grok that browser windows were flexible things, and most users were not looking at the web on full-screen browsers on desktop displays. The term "responsive design" didn't even exist until the advent of the smartphone, to the…

The author went somewhere totally different than I thought they would here. Their argument boils down to “smartphones are shitty computers with too many limitations”. This is a fair point but arguably not the main one. IMO the real reason smartphones suck is that they are attention sucking, dopamine delivery systems. A logical evolution of a slot machine. I hate mine yet here I am yelling into the internet on it...