This situation is not caused by complicated Japanese input methods. This is caused by young generation who don't use traditional computer with the keyboard.

It's another digital divide. Yes.

The generation who didn't have a personal computer in their young age is starting to retire.

Current 30s-40s years old workers are varies on computer literacy but many had a personal computer when they were a student. I belong to this generation.

I was hoping that the next generation will be completely digital native and all of them has computer literacy. Just laugh us and obliterate us from work force for we can't stand a chance against such a gifted digital native generation at birth. Just like we get rid of those annoying old people who don't have a computer literacy.

The invention of smartphone make that dream not happens. The smartphone makes people stupid. There is nothing smart about that computer.

The smartphone is inefficient and restricted computer. You don't have a freedom to choose the OS. You don't even have a root access to that very computer you own. It doesn't have a keyboard which is the most efficient input device for text. The smartphone is designed for reading the text, not for writing. So the young generation starting to lose the ability to write the text.

What makes me surprise is, that current students use the smartphone to read the papers, to write the necessary essay and reports necessary for graduation.

The fresh young generations who has just graduated enter the working class without learning how to use the keyboard. But the real work which involve a lot of text writing requires efficient input device such as the keyboard.

So the current trending of smartphone reduce the effective good workers from already reducing younger population in Japan.

I refuse to own a phone. Smartphone is the worst invention of our time. It disrupt attention, reduce computer literacy, or even plain literacy for it makes harder to write the text for most of them.