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Mat Duggan on smartphone fatigue: 'Now the smartphone is a tax'

Mat Duggan publishes essay on smartphone fatigue

1 Yesterday 8:13 AM · 1d ago · 1 article · 1 post · 2 sources · development 1 of 7

Duggan's essay "I'm Tired of Being on the Network" appears on Hacker News, describing his evolution from iPhone enthusiast to someone who resents smartphones as mandatory compliance tools rather than genuine choices. He illustrates how apps for school, transit, government ID, and other services have made smartphones effectively non-optional in places like Denmark.

“Now the smartphone is a tax. I get to choose my tax collector be it Apple, Samsung, Google, Nothing, Fairphone, but I don't get to choose whether to pay.”

Mat Duggan

Mat Duggan Author, essayist

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