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What the hell happened around 2010? Smartphones? (media.piefed.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/justpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Not just smartphones, dashboards with flat touchscreens. Now, you have to look at the dashboard. Prior, you manipulated all the controls by touch.

Honestly though, I don’t understand the smartphone thing. Set your playlist, book, podcast and go. Leave if alone until you park. Why is that hard?

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm with you. Maybe I'm getting old, but I still treat texting/messaging as asynchronous communication. It's not a "live" conversation, and if I'm driving or doing something else in between messages, then it's going to be a bit before I can respond again.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I like texting well enough, but it’s also a way to leave a message without all the steps of voicemail. Agreed, face to face conversation is best.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I still like apps that can use both voice and text messages but in a text like conversation.

    The removal of dialing and waiting for the ringing to stop (as well as those fake-out voicemail messages where they spoke as if answering followed with "just kidding! Leave your message..." Fucking hated people that did that shit) did a lot for it, and sometimes you only have time to say one thing before getting back to something else without the paranoia of them answering and having to deal with the pleasantries and hoping they wouldn't be impossible to get rid of after you finished whatever you had to say.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's hard because people are addicted to their phones. Tech companies have spent billions making social media as addictive as possible. Americans also have no other choice of transportation. If you want to go somewhere, you generally must drive

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Again, I don’t get it. For starters, driving is a great time to reset and decompress. More than simply walking through a doorway. It’s time to purge your brain of anything sordid in your day, like work. Distance happens, physically and mentally.

    You leave work, there’s a good book, or good music, you, and the road. Why would you let calls or texts interrupt that?

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