Link to John Dvorak's December 15 pcmag.com post, "The iPhone is Ruining the Country".Excerpt: I suppose this whole thing began a couple of years ago. Now it's completely out of control. At some point cell phones captured the collective consciousness of computer users. Now they're all anyone talks about anymore.
I noticed this phenomenon on a recent podcast I was asked to take part in. The show was supposed to be broadly about tech—computers specifically—but 90 percent of the conversation revolved around the mobile phone, the issues with new handsets, in particular.
The trend is horrid, but it's not it's not the trend that bothers me. What annoys me is the fact that there is little talk about anything other than hardware features. People talk about the screen, the keyboard, the On and Off button, the layout of the icons, etc. etc. Nobody ever talks about the lame applications. Wait, did I say "lame?" Actually, maybe that's the reason.
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