[rekenaut]

In my pocket, I have a wallet, timer, alarm clock, calculator, telephone, atlas, directory, camera, stock broker, flashlight, tape measure, television, music collection, encyclopedia, transit time table, library, notepad, and translator. How are these utilities an illusion?

[msgodel]

The few among those things that even reliably function are covered in ads and defects to the degree that you're better off without them.

The illusion is that you're getting a computer and not a collection of knickknacks and appliances.

[Gigachad]

Almost none of those things have ads on the iPhone. All of them function reliably.

[bacon_waffle]

I regularly notice bugs when using iOS Mail; one that springs to mind would display one email's body with the header info from another email, it seems to have recently been fixed but was easily reproducible for weeks if not months.

[worthless-trash]

I mean, you're getting advertisements in your iWallet.. so...

[Gigachad]

I'm not as that was US only but yes that was outrageous and hopefully never happens again.

[tgsovlerkhgsel]

> covered in ads and defects to the degree that you're better off without them

Someone is deluded, and it's either all of the people using these apps despite being worse off due to doing so... or it's you. (And we're talking about actual utility apps, not something that you could dismiss as a dopamine trap.)

[msgodel]

Firstly it's all very intentionally coupled together. There are strict rules around how the UI and notifications are used specifically so that they can sell your attention.

Secondly I think the only thing I really miss that's particular to smartphones is the map. Everything else is either a dumb gimmick or actually bad and all of it is to just get you're attention so they can sell it.

[astrange]

If you don't want notifications you can just turn them off.