The article explores the relationship between users and their smartphones, highlighting how these devices offer both emotional comfort and practical assistance. The author shares a personal anecdote about reminiscing with a friend through phone-produced memories, emphasizing how smartphones provide reminders for self-care and daily activities. While acknowledging concerns about surveillance capitalism, she finds the connection and support from her phone both oddly reassuring and maternal, illustrating a complex bond between technology and personal well-being.
When I get out of choir practice, it volunteers, unprompted, that it will take 12 minutes to get home by my usual route.
When I told her, she said her phone had had the same idea. It keeps trying to get me to put you as wallpaper.
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