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Investors Urge Apple to Do More to Protect Children From Smartphone Addiction [Updated]

On a side note, would the cellular Apple Watch seem like an alternative for people who want the basic phone functionality without any of the distractions?
 
78Bandit said:
This is nothing more than a version of the argument that state-sponsored early childhood education needs to start before the children turn two. The parents aren't doing their job working with their children to teach basic skills and they are entering school woefully unprepared. Social media isn't the problem any more than TV or video games have been for years.
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Thank you for stating what I meant in a much more acedemic prowess with words. [Thumbs Up agreed]
 
Send them to live with the Amish, and the kids with them - the Amish seem extremely calm and contented without all the distracting dreck that pollutes the minds of the modern secular schmuck.

Whilst I'm about it, have a gander - he's talking about you, you dopey generation of passive, apathetic dimwits:




There would be NO "smart" (?) phones for children in my house, and if I found one it would be in the shredder, no questions.

Don't be morons - did you check your brains out at the door?
 
Well looks like they official gave into it. I can see it now when a control is not setup correctly and becomes yet another “gate” like scandal.

I’ll be so glad when Apple gets a backbone again and starts saying NO instead of passively agreeing with everything.
 
JediZenMaster said:
I’ll be so glad when Apple gets a backbone again and starts saying NO instead of passively agreeing with everything.
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Or they actually did something wrong and are trying to make up for it. Apple saying no is like back when Steve told everyone they were holding it wrong instead of actively admitting to their mistake.
 
Paper all your rooms with aluminium foil under the wallpaper, and connect it to ground; problem will disappear overnight.
 
UL2RA said:
Is this like a much dumber version of the tinfoil hat?
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I feel your response could be considered the dumb part of this interchange; learn some basic physics and/or RF theory, or ask someone with the requisite knowledge in this field, to confirm this.
 
oyabroch! said:
I feel your response could be considered the dumb part of this interchange; learn some basic physics and/or RF theory, or ask someone with the requisite knowledge in this field, to confirm this.
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All of your last few responses have been sarcastic and meaningless to the discussion. Nothing you said has anything to do with addiction, Apple, parental controls, or parenting.
 
UL2RA said:
All of your last few responses have been sarcastic and meaningless to the discussion. Nothing you said has anything to do with addiction, Apple, parental controls, or parenting.
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That's life I guess.
 
UL2RA said:
I've learned so much from this conversation. Thank you.
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That's alright, I don't speak in a supercilious manner, generally, and if I DID, it wouldn't be to innocent, nice people :)
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jonnysods said:
Phones are handy but it's probably one of the worst inventions in the last 50 years for how it's dismantled society and impacted relationships and attention spans...

Sent from my iPhone... Sigh.
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You could always grab a hammer, and stove it in beyond all possibility of repair, and then revert to a brick phone; I've considered this SERIOUSLY, many times!
 
mfdavid said:
Let's blame it all on the parents. Yeahhh! Cuz it's a very easy way to deal if it, even if we know it will make no difference.

Let's also allow back alcohol and tabaco ads everywhere. **** the kids. Let's make more money and blame it all on the lazy parents!

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Well, let's also ask all the places that make junk food to quit making it, too.

You need food. You need to communicate with others. You don't need alcohol or tobacco. Especially if you're a kid.

I don't exactly think they're equivalent.

I do think Apple could work on some better parental controls, but asking them to do more than that is a bit unrealistic.
 
This reminds me when the iPod was blamed for hearing loss, what about other MP3 players and other devices? And here it is again, what about Android and other smart phones?
 
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Lancer said:
This reminds me when the iPod was blamed for hearing loss, what about other MP3 players and other devices? And here it is again, what about Android and other smart phones?
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Because Apple is the biggest company on earth that got to where they are by having high standards for quality and are held under more scrutiny than other companies ... and mostly due to the fact that they kept this blatantly hidden from customers and would never have tried to address the issue at all had it not been brought to our attention.
 
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