Look around now. Is your smart phone within a metre of you? Is it even in your hand whilst you are reading this? If you answered yes, then you may have to ponder the question, is your smart phone your third arm?
Whilst it may seem silly to even ask, think of it this way: if you are as dependent on your phone as you are on your arm, then its almost like your phone is apart of you! Steve Jobs, the inventor of the iPhone, said himself that the iPhones is "not just a communication tool but a way of life."
Personally, I almost always have my phone in my hand, my pocket or in reaching distance from me.
These days we rely on our phones for everything. We use it for Google maps, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, games, an alarm clock, a calendar, a camera, texting, music, weather, banking, a calculator and anything else you can think of! And finally, it is used as an actual phone for calling people... sometimes.
At the end of March in 2012, the iPhone had sales of US$22.7 billion! This just shows the magnitude of people that are buying these phones, and that isn't including other brands of smart phones. Smart phones seem to be a must have accessory and anything else is just doesn't compare.
At the end of March in 2012, the iPhone had sales of US$22.7 billion! This just shows the magnitude of people that are buying these phones, and that isn't including other brands of smart phones. Smart phones seem to be a must have accessory and anything else is just doesn't compare.
Many people would be absolutely lost without their smart phone and that includes me! We depend on these pocket-sized devices so much that many of us hardly let it leave our sight. Some of our most personal details are stored on these things too, from banking details to our home address. We might trust them too much.
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Have they ruined how we communicate with people? Is nothing
personal anymore? Is it acceptable to sit there and text other people and
scroll through Facebook when you are sitting right across from a friend? Would
you rather text someone than call them or have a face-to-face conversation with
them? These are all questions you should ask yourself, as there is no right
answer.
This type of technology is becoming so important in our
lives that we fear living without it. And whilst you may sit there and say
“My phone isn’t that important to me,” if the time came to choose to live
without it, you may think differently.
When I had to last two weeks without my iPhone, I went mad.
Luckily I could communicate through Facebook on my laptop and iPad, but not
once did I actually pick up the home phone and make a call.
Maybe the question isn’t ‘Can we live without our phones?’
maybe the question is ‘Do we want to live without our phones?’ To me, that is
an easier question, because while I'm sure I COULD live without it, I don't really want to give it up. And whilst
I maybe wouldn’t go so far as to say it is my third arm, I am very dependent on
it in many aspects of my daily life.
References:
http://pixelstech.net/article/1359363948_Why_does_Symbian_collapse_
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/08/19/apples-iphone-is-now-worth-more-than-all-of-microsoft/
