Arguing that speakers should be removed from phones because of people causing noise in public feels like an attempt to solve a social problem with a technical solution
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Also, you know what speaker is typically used for speaker mode, which some people - like me - need to be able to make *any* call at all?
Exactly.
@joepie91 People constantly wearing headphones so they can't hear what's going on around them, staring down at their phones so they're completely unaware of what's happening around them, I'll take noise from their speakers over that. Before phones it was boomboxes.
The people are the problem, not the phones.
Though there is a very noticeable uptick in accidents when the iPhone was introduced. I remember once fiddling with my new GPS software on my Windows Mobile device and going across 3 freeway lanes without having even noticed. Phones do have an ability to hold one's attention in a way that was pretty uncommon before. You just had the occasional person reading a newspaper in traffic.