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为什么我不喜欢智能手机
Why I don't like smartphones
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这篇个人随笔从使用体验和平台设计角度说明作者为什么不喜欢智能手机，批评它更偏向消费而非生产、受电池和平台限制难以成为真正的网络客户端，并推动云计算中心化、影响网页设计且缺乏安全开放。文章并非简单怀旧，而是借智能手机反思现代计算设备的选择与代价。
为什么经久不衰：它把很多人习以为常的智能手机依赖当作问题来审视，十多年后关于平台封闭、中心化和消费主义的争论仍不过时。
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反驳“只消费不生产”，但认同中心化担忧。
我不太明白他的某些论点如何支持他的立场。比如“我不拥有智能手机，因为它是消费设备而非生产兼消费设备”就很可笑——相册、书、电视、音乐播放器也是消费设备；智能手机把多种功能合在一起，非常有用。它还以多种方式成为生产设备：收发消息、拍照录像、处理邮件、课堂录音等。确实很难在手机上写软件或写书，但那是因噎废食；而且手机正变得更大更强，有些接上显示器和蓝牙键盘就能提供可用的桌面生产环境。网页设计也是：糟糕的网页设计师早就毁过网页设计，智能手机不是不用手机的理由。中心化方面我完全同意，云端依赖是滑坡。
IkmoIkmo查看英文原文
I don't really see how some of his points support his position. e.g. I don't own a smartphone, because it's a consumption device rather than both consumption and production, is just silly. So is a photoalbum, so is a book, so is a TV, so is a music player. A smartphone is all in one and it's incredibly useful. Beyond that, it is in ways a production device. It's a messaging device, a photo and video taking device, it's great for email, I record audio for my college classes on it etc. Sure you can hardly build software or write books on a smartphone in a practical way, but that's throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Further, smartphones are increasingly becoming production devices, too. They're becoming bigger, more powerful, and some can now be plugged in to monitors and bluetooth keyboards and create a reasonable windows production environment, others have interesting note-taking capabilities. Web design is another one... Bad web designers have ruined web design, just like they were ruining web design before smartphones. Further it doesn't seem like a reason not to use a smartphone, either. I'm in total agreement with him on centralisation... it's a slippery slope, I think. For example I'm still playing games from 15 years ago, because I actually own the software. But many of today's games, even though they have no multiplayer component, would not run if in 15 years their servers shut down... because there's calculation or storage being done in the cloud that is essential to the game running. We don't physically own copies of our software anymore, but rather we own, in a way, a sort of thin client and some login details that we have to hope will last as long as we'd like to use them. This was always a problem, back in the day, too... but at least the software was available. Take any popular MMO, if the servers shut down, people have copies and can run their own servers. In future, this may not be possible anymore. Anyway games are just an example, but it's a trend that's a bit worrying. Although, it's not specific to or exclusively because of smartphones, it's a larger trend.
认同消费定位，并批评应用追踪与移动体验。
“移动设备用于消费而非创造”这一点让我很有共鸣。我仍每天用手机，但用途基本不是内容创作，更多是在离开桌面时打发时间。我对装应用很严格，很多应用只想追踪你并塞广告，最糟的还会弹随机通知，这是不尊重用户。手机体验还在变差：我从 Nexus One 起用安卓，现在 Nexus 5X 常出 bug 和崩溃。安卓上建议装 Firefox、uBlock Origin 和 Ghostery，但整体在手机上做事像痛苦杂务。
TheAceOfHearts查看英文原文
The section about mobile devices being for consumption instead of creation really resonated with me. I still use my smartphone every day, but none of my uses are related to content creation; it's mostly a time killer while I'm away from a desktop. I've become pretty strict about installing applications on my smartphone. It seems like so many applications just wanna track everything you do and blast ads in your face. And the worst ones even start showing random notifications! To me this just shows a total lack of respect from their part. I always regret installing applications that behave this way. What's most surprising to me about mobile is that somehow it just keeps getting worse. I've been a smartphone user since the Nexus One came out, and I currently own a Nexus 5X. I don't think I've ever had a smartphone that was as buggy and crashed as often as this! If you're on Android, I strongly suggest installing Firefox with uBlock Origin and Ghostery. It makes the mobile web much better. But overall, doing anything on mobile feels like a painful chore.
从历史视角肯定智能手机的巨大价值。
如果1916年有人给你一个能放进口袋、几乎可与全球任何人即时通信、接入世界知识库、读书、全国导航、拍照拍片、播放几乎任何歌曲的设备，你觉得那人会说什么？“不要，谢谢”？智能手机是过去100年最重要的发明之一。
jvandonsel查看英文原文
If you had offered someone in 1916 a device that they could put in their pocket that would let them instantly communicate with nearly anyone on the planet, tap into a large fraction of the world's knowledge base, read books, navigate across the country, take photographs and movies, and play almost any song ever written, what do you think that person would say? "No thanks." ? The smartphone is one of the most significant inventions of the last 100 years.
反驳“毁掉网页设计”，认为移动推动响应式设计并终结旧浏览器桎梏。
关于“它们毁掉了网页设计”——我很期待那篇文章，但在我看来移动端绝对拯救了网页设计。手机之前，我没法让任何设计师理解浏览器窗口是可变的、大多数用户并非在全屏桌面浏览器上看网页；“响应式设计”这个词在智能手机出现前都不存在。我们本来还要长期支持 MSIE 6，直到 iOS Safari 变得重要。
Eric_WVGG查看英文原文
> They have ruined web design. But I should probably write a whole article on that. I sure am looking forward to that article, from where I'm sitting they absolutely saved web design. Before mobile, I absolutely could not get any designer to grok that browser windows were flexible things, and most users were not looking at the web on full-screen browsers on desktop displays. The term "responsive design" didn't even exist until the advent of the smartphone, to the best of my knowledge. Hell, we were still looking down the barrel of an eternity of MSIE 6 support until iOS Safari became important. (and the Youtube thing, of course)
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