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We have abandoned our children to the internet

Young people are addicted to a virtual world that is designed to keep them hooked with little care for collateral damage.

This article is about how children have been come internet addicts and how it’s affecting their lives. The writer states how they had walked into a kitchen with a dozen kids sitting on their phones and how they haven’t seen their children without their phones in a long time. Girls feel as if they have a social pressure, which means that they want to stay in touch with their friends and go on social networking sites. Teens have anxiety to keep their image; they don't want to be left out of any social events or groups. The article also shows that asking a teenager to put their phone, Xbox or laptop down is similar to asking an alcoholic to put their drink down. Youths admit they don't ‘feel in control’ of their own internet use. To conclude, I think that teenagers should know how much time they are spending on the internet and they should know when to get off, otherwise it can interfere with their real life.




iPhone 5C: Why the naysayers are wrong to say Apple is in trouble
The doom mongers misunderstand the nature of Apple's market share when they claim the recent high-cost iPhone launches showed an error of judgment
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/16/apple-computing



This article is about the new iPhone 5C. This is a cheaper version of the iPhone 5S, which Apple have been criticised due to the price. Both iPhone’s are coming out this month, iPhone 5S costs £529 and the iPhone 5C costs £429. The difference between the phones, are that the iPhone 5C is cheaper and it is in plastic. The article also states how people are saying that Apple aren't in trouble but the demand for the iPhone is high, however whenever Apple release a new product, customers are always lining up outside to see the new product. I think that the iPhone 5C is pointless, as it does cost a lot of money and if you're going to pay £429 for the iPhone 5C, you might as well pay the extra £100 to get a better version. They are basically the same phone, but one is cheaper.

iPhone 5 Facts:

• The iPhone 5 is a touchscreen-based smartphone developed by Apple.
• It is the sixth generation of the iPhone and succeeds the iPhone 4S
• The phone is a slimmer, lighter model that introduces a higher-resolution, 4-inch screen to the series with 16:9 widescreen aspect ratios.
• The phone runs on iOS 6 Operating System and support for LTE.
• Apple held an event to formally introduce the phone on September 12, 2012.
• After Apple began taking pre-orders on September 14, 2012, over two million were received within 24 hours.

Keep it simple: Smartphone world is full of failures that didn't follow the maxim

Samsung believes you can't have too much of a 'good' thing while the iPhone succeeded because it made things simple

This article states that Samsung has made a choice that you can’t have too much of a good or bad thing. This is why their products offer features such as: air command, smart stay, smart scroll and air gesture. Comparing it from long ago, for example Japanese 'hi-fi companies' were successful but are no longer in the leading race as they have made no improvements. The article includes saying "the kitchen-sink approach appeals to our desire to have more stuffbut complexity carries a cost, in attention if nothing else. Back in the day adults didn’t use phones and now they are getting popular by the day and they are getting more complex, which makes it difficult for people to use them. This article is suggesting that phones need simplicity.