The Phone is the perfect Device - in fact, it has defined what a Device is, and how we interact with the Computer.
People have no idea what the Computer is, but they have learned what a Phone is, very rapidly. And they cannot imagine being without one.
I have recently decided not to have one, and you cannot imagine how difficult this decision was to implement. Everyone assumed, if I did not have a Phone, I was not a person. Really!
I will illustrate this problem with an example, taken from real life.
A friend of mine decided to get a phone for him, and his wife. They just wanted to talk to each other, no matter where they were. All they needed was a Cell Phone, but they got a an Android instead - a Smartphone, without realizing it.
"No problem," you may say "They only got more than they asked for." But the husband discovered that his Phone, could provide all the conservative literature that he craved, and he concentrated on that. And became a strong supporter of the American invasion of Iraq. And then a supporter of Trump!
He got a Phone, but his Phone changed who he was.
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