![]() Emphasis on the hundreds of percent here, for the same tech. Yet in a rather twisted way, the top-end iPhone 6 plus can be 250% to 300% more expensive than the price of an iPad mini. If anything, the iPad should have actually been more expensive than the iPhone 6 plus, given the larger screen. So then exactly what is it that merits an iPhone to be so expensive? Your hypnotism that a smartphone is meant to be expensive, while a tablet is meant to be a cheaper alternative to a laptop. Do you realize a 7-inch iPad is nothing but a larger 5.5-inch iPhone, with similar or same features, the same iOS, the same apps, but with voice-calling disabled? It still has cellular network connectivity, mind you. ![]() ![]() Try this experiment for yourself: Look at the price of an Apple iPhone 6 plus. That immediately ruled out the Apple iPad. So I immediately started researching on the most suitable tablet for my needs, one which can also handle voice-calls and SMS-texting. What’s better than using a smartphone? In fact, what is it that a smartphone aspires to be? A tablet, of course. Maybe that explains why I wish to explore a new way of living and working digitally without a traditional smartphone. The great aspect of the Stop! Meditation is when you re-emerge from it, something intrinsically changes in you. The experience reminded me of one of my favourite meditation techniques: The Stop Exercise by the mystic master, Gurdjieff. The next moment it frapped into an inert, lifeless brick while in the middle of a battery-recharge. One moment it was an artsy, smartsy phablet. ![]() The increasing momentum of my digital life, personal and professional, was suddenly hurled over a precipice into a beep-less, soundless, vacuum. With my Lenovo Yoga 2 tablet and a Moto 360 smartwatch, circa December 2014 onwards. While being irreverent to one who is irreverent. Niyam Bhushan on why he has stopped using a smartphone, and why we will do so too. ![]()
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