If smartphone addiction were to arise anywhere, South Korea is probably the place: it is home to two smartphone giants — Samsung and LG — and boasts some of the world's fastest 4G LTE connections.
Not exact matches
If someone asked you why you carry a
smartphone, you might mention your particular model's sleek design or cop to a bit of an
addiction to one silly, time - wasting game or another.
«
If you go into PubMed [the search engine for the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest biomedical library] there are maybe 20 articles that include «
smartphone addiction» as a term, and most of those articles just talk about
smartphone addiction as a phenomenon,» notes Choi.
«
If we want to really call
smartphone addiction an
addiction, we have to provide biological evidence of things like reward pathways and circuits, because all
addictions have them.»
If we can make a
smartphone addiction taboo (like smoking inside buildings, for example), people will at least have to sanction their phone time off to delegated places and times, giving their brains a break.
The firms are concerned that
if Apple fails to tackle the problem of
smartphone addiction, the company's reputation and stock could take a major knock in the future.
Cook added he «wouldn't be in this situation»
if he were the head of Facebook, and that the social media giant needs more than «self - regulation» at this point in the wake of recent «controversies over fake news, electoral interference, privacy violations, and a broad backlash to
smartphone addiction,» per Klein.