Honestly, if we are really boycotting over default apps on phones I hope everyone is ready to take a step into a healthier direction and boycott phones in general.
I guarantee within the next 2-5 years this will also be heavily propped up by Apple as well, and I'm sure Google is already on it in partnership with Samsung to begin with so that it ends up being baseline on all Android devices.
What I mean to say is... When a market becomes a monopoly or oligopoly, boycotting one thing becomes difficult because the others are barely a step behind.
It'd be good, as a nation and as a species, to even take a few months from being attached to our phones / the internet 24/7 and only use it as needed.
I think that's kind of flown the coop already, but it'd be interesting to see how much happier people would be.
Ignoring all the dopamine of entertainment and access to information, the country's mental health would probably improve simply because they aren't ingesting fear porn and propaganda at all points.
I have a friend (we fast monthy as a religious group on food & give the saved funds to help feed those who cannot afford food) who suggested a weekend or week long fast of all screens/tech.
He went a month (almost a decade ago) & does it every year now.
We planned to implement a no power day in our home every month to teach our children how to survive in times of crisis or if the power goes out. Hoping I am ready for winter when we do that. Will need to teach out children how to prevent pipes from freezing.
If I get to a point where I can build my own home from the ground up, I will install pipes to every faucet via a central location so I can drain them all & only keep ones on that I must have that aren't likely to freeze in a disaster scenario. Trying to heat every room in my home where pipes run could be pretty costly depending on the layout.
Honestly, if we are really boycotting over default apps on phones I hope everyone is ready to take a step into a healthier direction and boycott phones in general.
I guarantee within the next 2-5 years this will also be heavily propped up by Apple as well, and I'm sure Google is already on it in partnership with Samsung to begin with so that it ends up being baseline on all Android devices.
What I mean to say is... When a market becomes a monopoly or oligopoly, boycotting one thing becomes difficult because the others are barely a step behind.
It'd be good, as a nation and as a species, to even take a few months from being attached to our phones / the internet 24/7 and only use it as needed.
I think that's kind of flown the coop already, but it'd be interesting to see how much happier people would be.
Ignoring all the dopamine of entertainment and access to information, the country's mental health would probably improve simply because they aren't ingesting fear porn and propaganda at all points.
I have a friend (we fast monthy as a religious group on food & give the saved funds to help feed those who cannot afford food) who suggested a weekend or week long fast of all screens/tech.
He went a month (almost a decade ago) & does it every year now.
We planned to implement a no power day in our home every month to teach our children how to survive in times of crisis or if the power goes out. Hoping I am ready for winter when we do that. Will need to teach out children how to prevent pipes from freezing.
If I get to a point where I can build my own home from the ground up, I will install pipes to every faucet via a central location so I can drain them all & only keep ones on that I must have that aren't likely to freeze in a disaster scenario. Trying to heat every room in my home where pipes run could be pretty costly depending on the layout.