The rise of the iPhone generation

Moving along. Nothing to see here. Just another mediocre anti-tech or anti-connected rant.

Upvoted. This article is cute, but boils down to just another vacuous diatribe against some nonspecific issue gleaned from the latest trend, gilded with verbiage.

He did have a point about the drunk dial app though :D

Agreed! I think the most worthwhile part of the article was the initial caption:

"Do you really never want to get lost again?"

I was actually quite touched by that point. Unfortunately, everything past that was masturbatory.

Yes, that caption gave me high hopes for the article. I thought it might be about slow living, enjoying the journey, and how optimizing these things make them harder to enjoy. Instead, it was just a trite lambasting of apps I'd never be caught using, rolled into a broad brush to paint the entire userbase.

That is one crazy lede: If you have an iPhone, you may be reading this with an app. A newspaper? Made of paper? Go and suck an arrow and protest against feudalism by dying of plague, Luddite.

Some on the spot observations +1 for this:

It is as if Steve Jobs™ has kidnapped them, implanted something terrible, and returned them – as iZombies.