I only saw half the video, and then I got bored.
His opinion is acceptable but you have to consider the point of view, that of a person who had an addiction to the media.
I am older than him and I experienced the era of the advent of mobile phones as a choice and not as something that you obviously had.
I can say that people who were born in the era of pervasive technology have a distorted view of information technology.
I had facebook for a while then I took it off, now I have it again but for me it's so boring and annoying (blatant) that I can't use it.
But today it is really necessary to have a smartphone because most of the essential information is conveyed in them (contact with people, internet connection which means access to information and... maybe not much else, that's the point).
So since a phone today is quite necessary, preventing it from doing more things than we need (which precisely "change our attention") is necessary, and answers like that of pinephone are really the answer to avoid being what companies like google or apple pretend from us.
For example, let's talk about tts, it's a technology I like a lot because it allows me to "read" without using my eyes (almost always tired), but I hate the idea that my phone is always listening to what I do because it is supposed that google can help me decide what is best for me ....
But if you have an android phone you have to start to disable all these behaviors by default and hope not to be spied too much anyway.
So I didn't accept this, at first I was doing these deactivations, then I learned to install cyanogenmod (it doesn't exist anymore), then I bought an s2 and I installed replicant (and I can't use wifi, bluetooth, gps, and even video acceleration).
So, to avoid anything that disturbed my attention, I had to give up even things that could be useful to me.
With the pinephone this will not happen because I will decide how to use these possibilities, but this point of view can not be shared by those who are used by the technology instead of using it.
His opinion is acceptable but you have to consider the point of view, that of a person who had an addiction to the media.
I am older than him and I experienced the era of the advent of mobile phones as a choice and not as something that you obviously had.
I can say that people who were born in the era of pervasive technology have a distorted view of information technology.
I had facebook for a while then I took it off, now I have it again but for me it's so boring and annoying (blatant) that I can't use it.
But today it is really necessary to have a smartphone because most of the essential information is conveyed in them (contact with people, internet connection which means access to information and... maybe not much else, that's the point).
So since a phone today is quite necessary, preventing it from doing more things than we need (which precisely "change our attention") is necessary, and answers like that of pinephone are really the answer to avoid being what companies like google or apple pretend from us.
For example, let's talk about tts, it's a technology I like a lot because it allows me to "read" without using my eyes (almost always tired), but I hate the idea that my phone is always listening to what I do because it is supposed that google can help me decide what is best for me ....
But if you have an android phone you have to start to disable all these behaviors by default and hope not to be spied too much anyway.
So I didn't accept this, at first I was doing these deactivations, then I learned to install cyanogenmod (it doesn't exist anymore), then I bought an s2 and I installed replicant (and I can't use wifi, bluetooth, gps, and even video acceleration).
So, to avoid anything that disturbed my attention, I had to give up even things that could be useful to me.
With the pinephone this will not happen because I will decide how to use these possibilities, but this point of view can not be shared by those who are used by the technology instead of using it.