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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by stormbeard on Monday June 26, 2017 @08:36PM (#14641636)
The types of people that would want this can already do it with their smart phones. What's gained by crippling a device to only support certain classes of apps?
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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by whitepoplar on Monday June 26, 2017 @08:55PM (#14641728)
It's like comparing Advil to Heroin. Heroin is better at numbing pain, but people prefer to take Advil as it's not addictive and won't damage us.
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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by amorphid on Monday June 26, 2017 @10:19PM (#14642104)
Someone cripples the device for me in a user friendly manner that doesn't require me to think about which apps I should avoid whenever I visit the app store.
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