Smartphone industries are flourishing as the time
processes. More advanced phones are
released and what a single phone can do resembles that of computer’s nowadays. Phone
appliers search for ways to provide faster, innovative phone service. Naturally,
as people are getting more accustomed to smartphones, people tend to rush and
live restless lives.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/technology/personaltech/2-new-plans-to-upgrade-smartphones-after-a-year.html?ref=technology
People’s
restless lifestyle is now affecting policy of phone appliers. Phone applier
company AT&T stated that survey result indicated people’s opinion that 2
years of waiting for a new phone is too long. Consequently, phone appliers are
reflecting people’s opinion and are shortening the time people have to wait to
get a new phone.
Such
change made me wonder if smartphones could be classified as either a “good” or
a “bad” change. Emergence of smartphones brought convenience to people and
encouraged the online communications among the people. However, smartphones
ironically are blockades of people’s communications in real life. Now, people
fully engrossed in smartphones can be usually seen in restaurant. Clearly,
people now are deprived of conversations and interactions due to the invention
of smartphones.
On
a bright side, smartphones provide shortcuts to people in a way of accessing
information. Now various app markets suggest abundant ways to acquire needed
information. Despite such advantages smartphones brought to human’s lives, disconnections
in human’s lives appearing as a major problem in a society makes me doubt if advantages
of smartphones are powerful enough to overthrow the disadvantages smartphones
have. People should rather spend time on having conversations than occupying
themselves in a tiny little smartphone that ceases people from communications.
I agree with your position on this topic. I don't think that the world needs anymore smart phones or technology. The world already has enough. Human interaction is being replaced by smart phones. This is not a good sign within our society.
ReplyDeleteI agree!
DeleteI find your commentary to be very interesting, and it greatly pertains to me and my "addiction" to my phone TT-TT
ReplyDeleteI agree that smartphones have created "blockades of people's communications in real life" and kept people to be consistently on their small screens of their phones. I find that this topic is a very nice choice to comment on since it is a pretty big problem in society.
hahaha (: thanks for your opinion! & yes, now society revolves around smartphones
DeleteI found the article you wrote about as very interesting. As for your blog, however, I felt that your commentary was a bit off topic. The author of the article you chose writes about how different phone companies such as T-Mobile and AT&T are reducing their two year plans to one year. I could clearly see you gave a brief summary and example in your second paragraph. As for the rest of your commentary, you began writing about how people are “deprived of conversations and interactions due to the invention of smartphones.” The article did not discuss the impact of smartphones on a person’s life; it was discussing how phone companies are decreasing the time to switch to an upgrade.
ReplyDeletePerhaps a more appropriate way of providing commentary on this topic would be considering: Is it really worth the money upgrading every year? Is it necessary to always have the newest gadget? Are these phone companies claiming they will save you money, when in reality they are cheating you since you are now upgrading every year instead of every two years?
Thank you for your opinion! I could see what I needed to add on more in order to analyze the article properly.
Deletep.s. My comments on how smartphones are influencing mankind were the thought emerged while I was reading the article. (: Thank you anyways! I'll definitely fix it