{"id":67089,"date":"2018-01-10T12:12:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T17:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67089"},"modified":"2018-01-10T05:20:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T10:20:06","slug":"wsj-silicon-valley-reconsiders-the-iphone-era-it-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67089","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Silicon Valley Reconsiders the iPhone Era It Created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tussle this week between\u00a0<a class=\"icon none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/apple-defends-its-smartphone-practices-for-children-after-investor-critique-1515458281\">prominent investors and Apple Inc. over iPhone use<\/a>\u00a0by young people comes amid a nascent re-evaluation of the smartphone\u2019s social consequences within the industry that spawned it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>The smartphone has fueled much of Silicon Valley\u2019s soaring profits over the past decade, enriching companies in sectors from social media to games to payments. But over the past year or so, a number of prominent industry figures have voiced concerns about the downsides of the technology\u2019s ubiquity.<\/p>\n<p>They include\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/quotes.wsj.com\/AAPL\">Apple<\/a>\u00a0executives who helped create the iPhone and now express misgivings about how smartphones monopolize attention, as well as early investors and executives in Facebook Inc. who worry about social media\u2019s tendency to consume ever more user time, in part by pushing controversial content.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/silicon-valley-reconsiders-the-iphone-era-it-created-1515493801\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tussle this week between\u00a0prominent investors and Apple Inc. over iPhone use\u00a0by young people comes amid a nascent re-evaluation of the smartphone\u2019s social consequences within the industry that spawned it. The smartphone has fueled much of Silicon Valley\u2019s soaring profits<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67089\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,209,175,94,101,582,589,168,104,129,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-blogging-the-internet","category-children","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-psychology","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67092,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67089\/revisions\/67092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}