Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements

Holy. This is so dire. I like how "smart" is always a euphemism for "shitty" when it's the prefix of a technology product.

Jury's still out on the Smartphone with a good number of pros/cons.

I'd bet that many who are enraged by this story, have already accepted numerous such agreements in the software/sites they use.

The smartphone is fine. It’s the apps that suck, and most of all it’s advertising.

I'd say it's the smartphones success that lead to smart bring a euphemism for everything. smartphones worked so well, It led to everyone and their mother attaching smart to everything.

The smartphone OS is not fine. It is build to take away you computing freedom. It's what enables and encourages these shitty apps while preventing better options. It is designed around advertising.