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Apple Should Address Youth Phone Addiction, Say Two Large Investors (reuters.com)
Two large Apple shareholders, Jana Partners and the California State Teachers' Retirement System, are urging Apple to take steps to address what they say is a growing problem of young people getting addicted to Apple's iPhones, Jana partner Charles Penner said. From a report: Jana, a leading activist shareholder, and CalSTRS, one of the nation's largest public pension plans, delivered a letter to Apple on Saturday asking the company to consider developing software that would allow parents to limit children's phone use, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier on Sunday. Jana and CalSTRS also asked Apple to study the impact of excessive phone use on mental health, according to the publication. Jana and CalSTRS together control about $2 billion worth of Apple shares, the Journal reports.
They already make their phones more expensive than anything a kid should have. What else can they do apart from this public-spirited action ;-)
And why do parents need help in cutting their own childrens' phone usage?
What happened to the good old "Turn the damned phone off"....or even better..."Give me that phone".
No need for Apple to get involved there.
Because mommy and daddy want to be their kids' friends and don't want to traumatize the kids by actually parenting.
Hell, why would parents buy children (less than teens at least) a phone in the first place?
Because it is a lot easier to let the phone entertain the kids instead of actually parenting.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.