Re:Having Your Smartphone Nearby Takes a Toll on Your Thinking
by rchaud on Monday August 09, 2021 @04:16PM
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It is not the OS maker, it is the bottomless pit of content running inside of it: IM, Email, Twitter, IG, you name it.
BlackBerry phones used to be called "Crackberries" in the 2G/3G era, because people could not stop themselves from constantly checking the web or sending emails and IM. And that was years before the content deluge really started.
They were called that because the user's interaction w/ push-notification devices was very different from Palm PDAs which were offline-first. You had to manually sync the device with your computer. When you were on the go, your content was only whatever you synced. There was no reason to check your device for something 'new'.
BlackBerry phones used to be called "Crackberries" in the 2G/3G era, because people could not stop themselves from constantly checking the web or sending emails and IM. And that was years before the content deluge really started.
They were called that because the user's interaction w/ push-notification devices was very different from Palm PDAs which were offline-first. You had to manually sync the device with your computer. When you were on the go, your content was only whatever you synced. There was no reason to check your device for something 'new'.