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Comment by lotsofpulp

3 hours ago

Why do you need phones to not be productive?

Being able to instantly communicate via photo and video makes a lot of people’s lives easier. For example, getting quotes for a house repair to save on travel time and energy getting estimates, showing before and after pictures to document performed work, and myriad more examples.

If someone is contacting you too much, that’s a problem solved by asking them not to harass you, not by putting limits on the device for everyone else.

How did you translate “I want a smaller phone available” to “putting limits on the device for everyone else?”

  • I didn’t. I use a 13 mini, and will for as long as I can because it was the smallest phone that was sufficiently productive for me.

    My response was to these statements:

    > But why are we needing a phone to be productive?

    > So they may be more "productive" with larger screens, but we never asked whether they SHOULD be more productive.