I think we will soon see a medical condition officially recognised amongst users of iPhones. I went to the Youth Voice performance at the M.E.N Arena tonight. Despite a brilliant show, both visually and in terms of sounds, the women in front of us sat on their iPhones throughout it. They were like zombies, unlocking their stupid iPhones, both choosing 1234 as their unlock codes. They would then click into messages, scroll up and down, go into a message stream, go back out, go into the Facebook app, scroll down, scroll up, exit app. They would then go into the gallery, scroll through photos, pinch zoom on an irrelevant picture, like zooming in a dogs face, then exit the gallery and scroll through the icon screens. Hundreds and hundreds of swipes, clicks and pinches later they did nothing at all of use. It was a habit thing, 20 seconds was all they could manage without 1234 swipe, swipe, messages, exit, swipe, swipe, Facebook, scoll, exit, lock. They did the same things over and over, literally hundreds of times.
I'm pretty sure that if they had to go without said phones for a day they would suffer restlessness and twitch like they were deranged.
If you are a stupid iPhone user, put it down, don't unlock, don't end up hugging your knees and rocking in an iphone rehab centre in 12 months because you're incapable of coping with uselessly unlocking, swiping and exiting.
