Two people agree with the Douche in the article: Taylor and Manic.

The whole point of the article is his epiphany realizing how much time he spent with his ipad; then he makes a fuss saying that technology, blah blah has taken away that 'free time' away from people. Wrong. It's taken away 'free time' from morons like him because they're idiots and can't prioritize their lives.

Hell, do you know how much time people waste on porn and video games?

Tards.

You just sound perfect now- top grades, sporty and having a life in a fraternity >.> Gratz on being a hermit for 3 months. You didn't have to enslave yourself on electronics but probably good to occasionally get out of the study hall. I mean, Princess Diana's death was headline news and the talk of the town at the time.

Ipad is so useless.

Iphone > all

Iphone has Ipod, Camera, Phone, Internet, Games, unlimited applications.... what more can you ask for. All in one ftw.

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wut

Huge difference.

When studying for university people recommend getting away from a computer cause there's too many distractions. There's IM, the web, games, ... all right at your fingertips to distract you. Sure you should have more self control to not allow these distractions to tempt you - yet lets see how many of the posts in this thread are during working hours, when we should all be focusing on our jobs rather than being distracted - get my point? Distractions are nice time wasters, yet too many can take away from being able to focus on more important things.

Thus how is the book different? No built in distractions, it is just a book.

Hermit? sports and fraternity keggers hardly count as being a hermit, wow.

I'm not perfect, yet I am trying to make a point. Talk to some of the most successful people you know and see how much time they waste randomly surfing or watching TV/movies.

Thanks for pointing out how many people cannot prioritize their life cause of easy distractions. Yet the author is a moron for figuring out he was being an idiot and wasting time rather than prioritizing his life? I think you need to revisit your argument.

That's an interesting comment since one of the biggest complaints against the iPhone when it came out (vs the BlackBerry) was that it lacked push e-mail.

Yet having Push is one more way your phone controls you. Since you are immediately made aware of a waiting message, the desire to read it right away is huge. I know people where the second they get a notification they have to read that stupid e-mail/text their buddy sent them.

This is why I have push and other notifications turned off. If I want to check messages, I'll do it on my own time, not when my phone tells me to. If there's an emergency and someone needs to get hold of me right away they can simply phone me. I don't consider texts and e-mail to my phone "urgent".


Of course, all the Wall Street bankers can chime in and say how absolutely necessary push notifications are to them in their line of work. :rolleyes: