We've all been suckered into fitting our life into a 5” touch screen.

Wikipedia image of Steve Jobs holding up an iPhone

Recently I heard a technopundit during drive-time radio anguish over how rough some people treat their phones (they’re expensive, fragile, still have trade-in value, etc)

I think he missed the point: cell phones are just like belt buckles and wallets and key chains - they are on our persons unless we’re in bed, but unlike belt buckles and wallets and key chains, sometimes they stop working and become dead weight in our pockets or purses

So we are rough with them because they should be durable, and they should work, all the time, and when they don’t, it’s because they’re made not to, and we know that and it makes us angry.

We've all been suckered into fitting our life into a 5” touch screen and thinking it’s hip and sick and cool and metrosexual(ish).

It’s not.

[2014-01-28]

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