Comments on: iPhone kerfuffle makes me wonder whether anyone bothers unplugging anymore

By: Michael Gracie

Michael Gracie — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:55:07 +0000

@EW – Yes…and the privacy issues. That side effect will definitely be excluded, even from the finest of print.

@MB – We can extrapolate much more useful information from a phone call versus, say, an email or an instant message. I think it falls just behind face-to-face in that regard. Further, every time I see an iPod user I first wonder why they’re so hell bent on eliminating one of their five senses.

By: Mandianne

Mandianne — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:35:28 +0000

They couldn’t help themselves. Used to be the phones killer app was just talking .. the techies had to keep banging away until they had more people convinced that the phone was a great place to put their ‘fantastical’ technology and voila, it’s now ‘always connected’ that has us convinced that talk is less important than always being connected (or listening to music .. sheesh). Good one on the Neo connection.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:12:13 +0000

Very nice tie-in with _The Matrix_ I’d never thought about cell phones as a voluntary way of hooking in. And the privacy issues…

(Good thing I don’t have to have one of those things.)

“Wake up Neo.”