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Tim Cook Wants Apple Devices to Be Used for Creativity, Not 'Endless, Mindless Scrolling'
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Tim was right but he can do something other than the passive way, such as screen time.
Do something more aggressively, for example, remove touch screen features, make it harder to scroll up and down, make all the images and video on the screen super tiny and can's zoom in, add 5lb to iPhone and make it heavier ..lastly, acquire FB, IG, Twitter, and Tiktok then sunset them. lol, just kidding.
The entire society needs to be aware of this mindless surfing....
Do something more aggressively, for example, remove touch screen features, make it harder to scroll up and down, make all the images and video on the screen super tiny and can's zoom in, add 5lb to iPhone and make it heavier ..lastly, acquire FB, IG, Twitter, and Tiktok then sunset them. lol, just kidding.
The entire society needs to be aware of this mindless surfing....
Not only the Mac but they need to do this for the M1 iPad Pro models as well. So much wasted power and potential.
totally agree... Social Media is an evil to teen girls...they are not ready for those media.
I agree. I wish I had more discipline. I find myself wasting precious hours on things that are fun in moderation (like video games or this forum) but in excess become destructive.
The biggest problem is that you can just just dismiss all your warnings. It needs stronger controls that you cannot overcome without passwords or something else not just…I just want 15 more minutes or 1 more minute (which kids figured out it would let them do all night despite restrictions).
I disagree. The entire way we process information is different. The entire way we live is different.
The problem is people look inside and say I am like my family - you probably are- but ignore the aggregate changes to society because they are beyond any one persons ability to put them together. But their are aggregate changes and some of them are dramatic and some are good and some are not. And technology and ourelation to it drives some of those changes.
In addition to the aggregate their is also the margin. I don’t favor any restrictions on video games but people saying they cause violence are wrong in the aggregate but probably right on the margin. Some people probably become violent after playing video games - some people whose brains are more susceptible to others.
Social media has negative emotional impacts on some people and results in social contagions move much faster through populations (like cutting in teenage girls).
Is sitting mindlessly reading a trash novel different from TV from YouTube from Facebook? Probably not. But that doesn’t mean their are not radical generational changes being fueled.
Um… well to start with every single company that doesn’t use Chinese labor, that install suicide nets on their buildings because working for them is so less rewarding than life itself?
I would be more inclined to agree with people promoting self discipline but these companies literally hire psychologists to explicitly design addictive systems and you cannot ignore that
Yes. Tim Cook loves the environment so much but he wants you to buy new phones and watches to access software features that he chooses to lock off from previous products.
You’re not the boss of me Tim! If I want to mindlessly scroll through apps designed for endless scrolling like, the App Store, Music, Apple TV, or Fitness, I’m gonna.
Wheres the original? i missed it
In a new interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he's worried about the "endless, mindless scrolling" behavior that social media inspires people to undertake and is generally concerned that people are "using technology too much."
The interview conducted with Bustle touched heavily on Apple's support of Shine, an app designed to fight social stigmas around mental health issues and is "another powerful example of how technology can be used to help improve people's lives," according to Cook. During the interview, Cook said that "mental health is a crisis" and that he tackles the day-to-day stress of being Apple's CEO by meditation and "being out in nature and feeling so insignificant in the world."
Talking about online and technology addiction, Cook repeated a claim he's made previously, having said that "technology should serve humanity and not the other way around" and that he's fundamentally worried that people are using technology too much, and Apple's aim is to try and help them.
Cook went on to state that the "endless scrolling" of social media, such as Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, although not mentioned directly, are surrounding users with "negativity." He said that Apple wants its customers to enjoy their products to connect with family and friends, not to use them for "endless, mindless scrolling."
Aza Raskin, the creator of the infinite scrolling mechanism on social media, said in 2019 that he is "so sorry" for his invention, adding that he regrets what it's done to society. He said the goal with the idea was to help create the "most seamless experience possible for users," but that regrettably, it has turned out to be a ploy to "keep them online for as long as possible."
The Shine app with a "mission to make caring for your mental health easier, more representative, and more inclusive" was crowned Apple's best app of 2020 is available to download for free on the App Store [Direct Link].
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It seems counter-intuitive to say, "people scroll too much", when they make, advertise, and sell the very devices that DO that very thing! Like a car manufacturer saying "people need to stop driving so much", while making and advertising and sellling cars. Gah! Forked tongue much, Tim?
Many Apple Customers have spent billions of dollars on equipment the never needed and never used, where a Chromebook or Windows machine would have more than taken care of the purchasers needs(scrolling). Cook should be happy that people want to run around with that Apple lit up on the back of their , especially laptops.
Thanks for explaining in more detail.
I guess it all comes down ones individual ideas of Steve and Tim. Each of us will have a different perspective. I always thought iphone was a great product. But as much as I admire Apple and the things they do right, I never viewed them as magical. It wasn't magical under Steve and isn't magical under Tim. Different leaders for different times. Apple has to roll with the times and Tim does that very well.
It wouldn’t surprise me that the “mindless scrolling” is the top reason people are buying Apple devices.
iPhone is nr 1 selling Apple device: it is a connectivity device, so most buyers use it for connecting and social media is probably the most used software For connecting.
iPad is not used most for being creative, but to “consume“. It’s possible for sure to be creative on iPad, but I expect FB, YouTube, TikTok, Netflix, etc. to be the most used apps.
Macs? Yes!!! But, the least sold Apple devices.
Will Tim next want Macs not to be used for gaming?
iPhone is nr 1 selling Apple device: it is a connectivity device, so most buyers use it for connecting and social media is probably the most used software For connecting.
iPad is not used most for being creative, but to “consume“. It’s possible for sure to be creative on iPad, but I expect FB, YouTube, TikTok, Netflix, etc. to be the most used apps.
Macs? Yes!!! But, the least sold Apple devices.
Will Tim next want Macs not to be used for gaming?
Turned an observation from someone that is in the know about how Apple products are used into some hypothetical negative statement?
Sure, we all have different perspectives, that's the idea and how life evolves.
But I think Apple had some magic with Steve and Joni. I rewatched the presentation and birth of the 1st iPhone recently. It was pretty magical, and in comparison to todays endlessly boring keynotes that I stopped watching.
If you did't perceive these times as such, fine.
But as you were the one choosing the word magical, what is your reference for something to be magical?
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I am guilty of mindlessly consuming on occasion. I work hard not to and to put my phone down but I'm not perfect. I agree with Tim, though. Tech should be used to enhance life, not distract us from it.