David Zax at MIT Technology Review has been without an iPhone for a week:
That’s not to say that I haven’t enjoyed some benefits from being iPhone-less. It’s true that “spare change” time–the time waiting in line to order, or waiting for the subway to come–now gets funneled into thinking about projects I’d rather be thinking about than yet another compulsive check of my inbox. There’s undoubtedly something to be said for that. But so far, the brief bliss of moments like these is mostly overshadowed by the dozen other ways I’ve inconvenienced myself. I’m obviously and unequivocally at a net loss.
I am a month in to my iPhoneless experiment, and I couldn’t disagree with David Zax more. It’s been a net gain for me, for sure.
via Ben Brooks