Your claim is worthless without context. Please provide some evidence: why is smartphone the highest ROI purchase for you and why do you think it will be worth it for others.
With smartphones as ubiquitous as they are today, computer-literate people who don’t have them should have their reasons. You don’ t provide any.
My reasons for not having a smartphone are: I predict that benefits of smartphone ownership will not justify the cost of ownership for me. The cost of ownership consists of:
One-time:
Researching and choosing a smartphone
Learning to use it and its many applications
Cost (smartphone must be bought)
Recurring:
One more thing to manage and obsess over
One more thing to charge and not lose
A distraction that’s always with me. I cannot do any productive work on the phone, but I can use the internet, very slowly. Any time and energy spent on it would be better spent elsewhere.
Data plans cost money.
Of course, smartphone usage has its well-documented benefits, but for me they didn’t yet outweigh the costs.
The reason I ultimately surrendered and bought a smartphone was that I hoped to implement Allen’s GTD with it. Only later I came across his interview where he advices not to use brand new technologies for GTD, but tried and true ones, that you are already comfortable with. So true.
Your claim is worthless without context. Please provide some evidence: why is smartphone the highest ROI purchase for you and why do you think it will be worth it for others.
With smartphones as ubiquitous as they are today, computer-literate people who don’t have them should have their reasons. You don’ t provide any.
My reasons for not having a smartphone are: I predict that benefits of smartphone ownership will not justify the cost of ownership for me. The cost of ownership consists of:
One-time:
Researching and choosing a smartphone
Learning to use it and its many applications
Cost (smartphone must be bought)
Recurring:
One more thing to manage and obsess over
One more thing to charge and not lose
A distraction that’s always with me. I cannot do any productive work on the phone, but I can use the internet, very slowly. Any time and energy spent on it would be better spent elsewhere.
Data plans cost money.
Of course, smartphone usage has its well-documented benefits, but for me they didn’t yet outweigh the costs.
The reason I ultimately surrendered and bought a smartphone was that I hoped to implement Allen’s GTD with it. Only later I came across his interview where he advices not to use brand new technologies for GTD, but tried and true ones, that you are already comfortable with. So true.