There’s a new iPhone. Again. Improbably, we are on the 17th iteration (give or take) of the product that single-handedly ruins our lives every day with incessant vibrations alerting us to some horrifying calamity, plus every song in the Bruce Springsteen back catalog. Coming up with new features for the never-ending information machines we all keep in our pockets isn’t easy, but this time, Apple managed to develop a big (or should I say small) one. There’s now a thinner iPhone Air, which is being marketed as the thinnest iPhone ever. These gadgets have never exactly been gargantuan, so it’s kind of like identifying the tiniest grain of sand in the desert. Still, people around the world are fascinated by the sheer lack of phone here.
Technology, design, and art are all trending toward a certain scarcity model, prepping us for a lack of bells and whistles, as though both your parents are unemployed and they want you to expect fewer trips to Disneyland. Life on Earth feels more and more like the experience of entering a Sweetgreen – beige, spartan and unobtrusive. Sure, iPhones haven’t gotten cheaper, but they have certainly gotten … lesser. The iPhone Air is so small, I feel like I’ll sit on it and it will slide seamlessly up my rectum, never to be seen again. For some, I’m sure losing your device inside your bowels might be a feature, but I think it’s a rather uncomfortable bug.
People who dislike their phones so much should stop using them. I’m very happy with mine.
once you get out of social media you realize the problem are those , no the phones.
I love being able to talk good quality pictures of my kids without having to even think about it or sharing them with their grandmother.
I enjoy when my home screen presents me with a nice portrait taken years ago that I have forgotten about. live photos are an amazing detail that often without any intention capture a funny or cute scene.
The phones is boring but thy are also a canvas. look the kind of covers that teenage girls use.
the problems with phones are not the phones. it’s companies taking advantage of them to steal every second of attention from us
Did you read the article though? It is actually about minimalism
yes, but that part is even dumber and didn’t wan to talk much of it.
so they sell like 5 different iphones and one of them is marketed as the thinnest. it is apple trying to widen their almost saturated market, not a conspiracy.
Social media is a big part of the problem but still a symptom of the same systemic issues that phones are a symptom off.
Modern Phones are pocket-sized personal computers that are heavily restricted in what users can do, heavily tailored to what consumption our corporate overlords want to maintain (social media being an example, predatory games another).
Just like social media (facebook) is near impossible to avoid because all your local businesses don’t have a website and only inform and communicate trough a social media page (thanks my partner still has an account) you cannot simply not own a phone because scanning qr codes is now often a required part of participating in society, often unexpectedly.
I still have Instagram but what I did that helped was to uninstall the app and just use the website as a pwa, no notifications or anything, now I can open it every few days to see the memes my wife sends me and see what local activities are happening in town
Aren’t you using social media right now?
Forums are only sort of social media
There is less focus on users and more on topics, and they have more practical uses than social media
But still, Lemmy is social media, I guess.