Yeah. If calling/sms was all I used my phone for, I would probably still use my old Lumia Windows phone even as the app builders stopped supporting it.
But because its for public transport tickets, accessing the local library, accessing the gym center, ordering at restaurants or food delivery, sending money to family, car navigation, syncing my exercise watch, being invited to social events, streaming my cloud saved music library, rent a city-bike, check my medicine prescriptions…
I need a phone that is up to date. How is people living without a smart phone today?
It would be fine if you had a computer, like a lot of us did before smartphones were popular.
On your list of activities, most of those are not things I use a smartphone for. I do use it to play music sometimes, and I use an open source maps app for long drives where I’m traveling to somewhere new. Otherwise I do all of that with a normal phone call or a website on the computer.
I don’t install anybody’s app. Fuck everybody’s store apps, I won’t do it. An app is not necessary for most of life’s activities, and I prove it on a daily basis by not using them.
Last time I went to a nice restaurant, they wanted me to check in at the front on a tablet. I went through the motions until it wanted my cell phone number to alert me when a table was ready. I canceled the process and refused to give them my cell phone number. The host / receptionist was not happy but was able to accommodate our simple request of getting a table anyway.
All you have to do is just not participate in the data collection by saying “no” to that stuff. It’s easy when you get used to that as a default stance. I’m still able to do everything I want to without all that invasive bullshit.
All you have to do is just not participate in the data collection by saying “no” to that stuff.
But honestly, I love to use my phone for everything. Love not having to talk to people to get stuff done. Not deal with queues. Not wait for the server to be ready for me to pay before I leave. Not carry around paper tickets, or printed maps. Not having to find a seven-eleven to buy bus tickets.
I am worried for those who for some reason can’t use a smart phone. A lot of this doesnt have a website alternative. Most of it has paper/plastic/in-person-alternatives still, true, rarely advertised though. I am worried the analog ways disappearing eventually since very few uses it.
Yeah this little thing is basically what defines every person today. It holds our bank account, government info and other more critical information.
computers can do most of the checking/ordering/sending via websites, and if you live outside of a city those phone-connected infrastructure things don’t exist.
