You can’t consolidate these notifications into one alert anymore, meaning you constantly check your phone: incessant phone use is hard-wired into your iPhone settings. Consider that in order for FaceID to function, the iPhone X needs to almost constantly be scanning the user. According to ComScore, as of June 2017, Apple made up almost 45 percent of the U.S. smartphone market. The consumer is rendered pretty much helpless, especially when Apple’s design decisions are specifically intended to lock in the user through network effects and inter-device operability. Pegah Moradi is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Source: Daily Sun September 18, 2017 05:15 UTC