SMARTPHONE SALES ARE DECREASING REGARDLESS OF CULTURE OR GEOGRAPHY, BECAUSE THE POPULACE HAS RECOGNIZED THAT TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN WEAPONIZED AGAINST IT
“Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.”
Remy de Gourmont
“Now the Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it, to be subject wholly to it and to last only so long as it too should last. And much of the strength and will of Sauron passed into that One Ring; for the power of the Elven-rings was very great, and that which should govern them must be a thing of surpassing potency; and Sauron forged it in the Mountain of Fire in the Land of Shadow. And while he wore the One Ring he could perceive all the things that were done by means of the lesser rings, and he could see and govern the very thoughts of those that wore them.”
From “The Silmarillion”, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, 1977
(Jim Carrey as the Riddler in “Batman Forever”, 1995 - he’s taking in the brain waves his purpose-built set-top box has stolen from unwitting television viewers. They’re kidding, kidding!)
(The Internet in 1995)
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.”
― Aldous Huxley
(“Zombie Apocalypse”)
Great positive changes are underway at every level of our reality. They began in earnest in 2012, and are increasing in speed and magnitude. I began writing this series of articles, entitled “Positive Changes That Are Occurring”, in July of 2013.
These historically-unprecedented positive changes are being driven by many hundreds of thousands, if not millions of simple, inexpensive tactical Orgonite devices based on the work of Wilhelm Reich and Karl Hans Welz.
Since Don Croft first fabricated tactical Orgonite in 2000, its widespread, ongoing and ever-increasing distribution has been unknitting and transforming the ancient Death energy matrix built and expanded by our dark masters, well, all the way back to Babylon, and before. And, as a result, the Ether is returning to its natural state of health and vitality.
One of those changes is that the populace has recognized that technology has been weaponized against it. That’s because moral and mental health vary directly with that of the subject’s etheric environment.
As a result, Smartphone sales are decreasing regardless of culture or geography, and that decrease is growing in speed and magnitude.
(Young children with Smartphones)
In 2011, the World Health Organization classified mobile phone radiation as a group 2B carcinogen, which means it is possibly harmful to humans.
In September 2011, Bright Hub explained “Why is the iPhone Not Cool Anymore? It’s a Dad Phone!”
There’s a strict rule in journalism, where you don’t use proper names unless there’s a salient reason to do so. Thus, this is a hit-piece on Apple, and a commercial for Samsung.
Cheeringly, we can see here how, a decade ago, kids were already waking up to the fact that cell phones are evil. I’d note that the phenomenon first appears here in 2011, 2012, right when the great positive changes I’m documenting here got underway in earnest.
In 2013, mobile phone sales dropped for the first time since 2009.
In September 2013, NPR said “Phantom Phone Vibrations: So Common They’ve Changed Our Brains”.
Phantom - adjective [ before noun ] UK /ˈfæn.təm/ US /ˈfæn.t̬əm/
like a ghost
noun - a spirit of a dead person believed by some to visit the living as a pale, almost transparent form of a person, animal, or other object
The propagandist from NPR is playing that there’s been some use-based change in neural pathways, when the truth of the matter is that technology allows demonic incursions into your body’s auric egg, into your energy body, into your soul.
As has been true for all history, you have to invite the demons in, you have to summon them. It’s a free-will thing.
In August 2015, buzzfeed.com said “This Is Why Resting Bitch Face Is Totally Awesome”.
Awesome - adverb - 1. Scottish. In a manner which arouses or inspires awe; in a fearsome or horrifying way. Cf. awfully adv. 1 Obsolete.
(Twin girls from “The Shining”, 1980)
(Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams in “The Addams Family”, 1991)
(Actress Emma Watson’s Resting Bitch Face)
(Actress Anna Kendrick’s Resting Bitch Face)
Sauron was become now a sorcerer of dreadful power, master of shadows and of phantoms, foul in wisdom, cruel in strength, misshaping what he touched, twisting what he ruled, lord of werewolves; his dominion was torment."
From “The Silmarillion”, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, 1977
Households with mobile service but no smartphones increased 7% from 2017 to 2019, as readoption of flip phones doubled among households earning over $100K/year.
The number of voice calls made on mobile phones in the UK decreased 1.7% 2017, the first such decrease since the devices’ inception.
International sales of so-called “smart” phones decreased 0.5% during 2017 – the first such decline since the smartphone became a recognized product.
Smart phone sales in Egypt dropped 50% in 2017. Daily News Egypt said the decrease occurred “after flotation”.
The sales of the Chinese smartphone makers Oppo and Vivo dropped for the first time in India in July 2017, by 30%, year-over-year.
In 2017, AT&T said that smartphone sales had become so unpredictable that it would no longer provide a forecast for the company’s total revenue for 2017.
Gartner said that international sales of smartphones increased 9% in the 1st Quarter of 2017. This while Samsung smartphone sales dropped 50% in China in the 1st Quarter of 2017, to their lowest level in five years.
iPhone sales decreased by .78% in the second quarter of 2017, year over year. CEO Tim Cook blamed the Apple’s sales drop on “press leaks”.
Apple’s stock dropped more than 2% in May 2017.
International smartphone shipments dropped 1.3% in the 2nd Quarter of 2017 year-over-year.
Smartphone sales in India dropped 4% in the 2nd Quarter of 2017.
In May 2017 doctors in Denver, Colorado sought to ban smartphone sales to preteens.
Smart phone sales in Brazil dropped 2% in the third quarter of 2017. The IDC said the decrease occurred “as consumers save for Black Friday and Christmas”.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. One of those variants is “strange”. That’s why an urbo.com article from July 2017 is headlined “Here’s The Strange Reason Japan Is Still Using Flip Phones”.
The article continues: “The iconic flip phone was popular in the U.S. before the iPhone, but why is Japan still obsessed with the outdated technology***?***
The use of “obsessed” and “outdated” position urbo’s missive securely as a hit-piece. Can you see how they’re playing it as if it were a style thing?
In July 2017 the Samsung Galaxy S8 smart phone was selling 20% below 2016’s S7.
International sales of so-called “smart” phones decreased by 5.6% in the fourth quarter of 2017, year-over-year. CNBC.com said “Smartphone sales are slowing and here are two key reasons why”. Those reasons being “Consumers are holding on to their phones longer and are also increasingly unimpressed with the frequency and diversity of new models, expertshave suggested.”
In August 2017, techradar.com said “Samsung, please let me buy this new flip-phone”. Ah, social engineering, is there anything it can’t do?
“The W2017 was announced at the tail-end of 2016, but we’ve now heard rumors of a release in Korea - but sadly there’s still no sign of it coming to the US, UK or Australia. These high-end flip-phone devices never usually make it out of Asian markets, and that’s a big shame for those who want something a little different. Then when I want to text or use further apps, I’ll be able to flip the phone open and feel that physical click of the top screen locking into place. This feeling is the thing I miss most from the first generation of foldable phones.”
See, you need the “second generation”. They want to trick you into buying a phone that flips open, but that is just as deadly and weaponized and addictive as your current “smart” phone. Here, they conjure that it is “flipping it open”, and not “freedom from online enslavement” that attracted you to those first gen flip phones.
In October 2017, Essential dropped the price of their smartphone by $200.
That’s because prices drop either when demand decreases, supply increases, or both.
Smartphone use “fell” among the young for first time in October 2017.
An opinion piece from October 2017 said “Flip phones are the smart substitute to smart phones”. That same month, another article said “John Stockton, Karl Malone and their flip phones hung out together”, noting “Karl Malone is a staunch proponent of the flip phone, going back to an interview in 2014.”
It’s a hit-piece - they’re fighting a desperate rearguard action to keep the populace from completely giving up technology driven by deadly non-ionizing radiation.
The Taiwanese smartphone-maker HTC’s shared price dropped over 8% in November 2017, “Google sale report” blamed.
International sales of so-called “smart” phones decreased 4.1% in 2018, to 1.4 billion units total.
Apple’s stock dropped 6% in November 2018. The corporation lost tens of billions of dollars in market value.
In January, 2018, the terrifyingly-named scarymommy.com said “I Don’t Want To Be A Smartphone Zombie Anymore.”
In January 2018, CNET widened its eyes to simulate honesty and explained “Why your iPhone and Android phone will cost more in 2019”. Like the soft drink manufacturers, they’re turning the screws to their permanently-shrinking customer base. The propagandist at CNET to make no mention of the fact that sales of so-called “smart” phones had just decreased the previous quarter for the first time since the invention of the devices.
In January 2018, the New York Times said “Tech Backlash Grows as Investors Press Apple to Act on Children’s Use”.
Where the propagandist gymnastically used the words “Tech” and “Use” to avoid saying the word “smartphone”. That’s to obey the international news blackout that’s in place on the collapse of the repugnant device.
The article went on to say “A creator of the iPhone called the device ‘addictive.’ A Twitter founder said the ‘internet is broken.’ An early Facebook investor raised questions about the social network’s impact on children’s brains.
Can you see how “a creator”, “a Twitter founder” and “an early Facebook investor” are all general? As you may recall, generality is a hallmark of propaganda.
The unnamed Twitter founder says the problem is “the Internet”…versus the truth: that it’s the sea of purportedly-harmless non-ionizing radiation that drives it.
The unnamed FB investor says the problem is “the social network” that is having some general, unspecified “impact” on children’s brains….versus the truth: that it’s the sea of purportedly-harmless non-ionizing radiation that drives it.
The article continues: “Now, two of the biggest investors on Wall Street have asked Apple to study the health effects of its products and to make it easier for parents to limit their children’s use of iPhones and iPads.”
Where “two of the biggest investors” is, once again, general. Why is just one company being asked to study the health effects of its products? It’s blatant anti-Apple propaganda. The bizarre inference is that phones from other manufacturer’s aren’t bad for you, like Apple’s are.
In February 2018, the international smartphone market dropped for the first time in history, by a staggering 9%, year-over-year.
In February 2018, Vox said “Break up with your smartphone”, and that “advocacy groups, psychologists, are saying to get rid of it.”
It’s a hit-piece trying to keep you from figuring out that your TV, laptop, and all the rest of it are driven by the same deadly non-ionizing radiation that is used by your so-called “smart” phone, Preciouss.
Can you see how “advocacy groups” is completely general? What, or whom, are they even talking about? Can you see how psychologists are mentioned, versus Doctors? Like it’s a “you’re crazy” problem, not “the shit will take down anyone who partakes of it”.
In March 2018, the U.K.’s Guardian said “I’ve decided to reclaim my life – by using an oldNokia phone”.
It’s a hit-piece, a desperate rearguard action trying to keep you from ditching any phone. Trying to “compartmentalize” it…to keep you from figuring out that your TV, laptop, and all the rest of it are driven by the same deadly non-ionizing radiation that is used by your so-called “smart” phone, Preciouss.
In March 2018, Quora asked “Why Are Smartphone Sales Declining Worldwide?”
Quora said only generally that “the smartphone market is showing signs of stagnation”.
Stagnation - noun - lack of activity, growth, or development.
Quora attributed the unspecified decrease in sales to “higher costs for incremental improvements, people keeping their current phones or buying cheaper models.”
Buying cheaper models would not have any impact on overall unit sales, of course. But it doesn’t matter that the plausible-deniability excuses are illogical, irrational, or threadbare. The propagandist knows that many or most readers will grasp virtually any straw, no matter how thin, to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.
In April 2018, theoutline.com said “This year’s hottest cultural trend is flip phones”.
They’re playing like it’s a fashion thing, versus the truth, which is that the populace has recognized that technology has been weaponized against it.
In May 2018, wbir.com said “2nd graders tells teacher they wish mom, dad would get off the phone”, and that “I hate my mom’s phone and I wish she never had one,” one student … I wish my mom’s phone wasn’t invented, 2nd grader writes in school”.
Can you see how the author carefully used “wish” in the headline, and hid “hate” in the body text?
It’s a hit-piece, to keep the NPR-addicted masses of phone-addicted adults from clucking to themselves that at least the school kids are not, in fact, addicted to their so-called “smart” phones - which in fact they are. The propagandist knows that many or most readers will grasp virtually any straw, no matter how thin, to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.
It takes the larger, wider problem of a deadly sea of non-ionizing radiation and “compartmentalizes” it down to merely “mom and dad”, and only to the smartphones of the parents, not all their other gear. TV. Video games. Microwave oven. Laptop. Wi-Fi.
In May 2018, qrcodepress.com said “Dumbphones and flip phones become hottest mobile device trend”.
Where “trend” once again plays the ruse that it’s fashion thing.
They kicked off the headline with the word “dumb” because they’re trying to trick some subset of the mouth-breathing rube populace into buying web-enabled phones that flip open. You’ll be sure to run from the socially-scary word “dumb”, and, as a bonus, have gotten a shiny new toy, the overpriced web enabled “flip phone”.
That’s why a Verge article from June 2018 is headlined “Samsung’s folding phone may be pricey”.
Since the market they’re after is vain and classist, the tag “pricey” is a powerful attractant.
In June 2018, CNBC said “A big comeback for the extinct flip phone is about to unfold”.
Where “unfold” is a tireless pressing of their web-enabled flip phone Trojan horse. CNBC is shamelessly shilling for Samsung’s “folding phone” mentioned in the previous example.
Smartphone shipments decreased 6% in the 3rd quarter of 2018. IDC said “the Leading Vendor and the Largest Market Face Challenges”.
In July 2018, a Samsung advertisement said “Samsung’s 2019 phone folds in half ‘like a wallet’, but it’s NOT a flip phone”.
It’s the same “folding” meme as above. It doesn’t “flip open”, it rather “folds in half, like a wallet” – you know, a fat wallet full of CASH? So, you’re “different”, and with-it, and definitely not DUMB.
In August 2018, emarketer.com described “The Love-Hate Relationship Between Teens and Their Smartphones”, and explained “It seems like teenagers would appreciate taking a break from their smartphones, if only they knew how.”
It’s a hit-piece, to keep the NPR-addicted masses of phone addicted adults from clucking to themselves that they are not, in fact, addicted to their so-called “smart” phones, like those dumb, lame teens sure are. The propagandist knows that many or most readers will grasp virtually any straw, no matter how thin, to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.
It takes the larger, wider problem of a deadly sea of non-ionizing radiation and “compartmentalizes” it down to merely teens, and only the smartphones of those teens, not all their other gear. TV. Video games. Microwave oven. Laptop. Wi-Fi. Oh, and the teens will only take one small break, and then get right back to it.
In September 2018, Thriveglobal.com said “Downgrade Your Smartphone to a Flip Phone For a Better Life”, and that “In college I downgraded my smartphone to a flip phone. Here’s why I’m never going back”.
It’s a hit-piece, part of a rearguard action to try to keep you from getting rid of a cell phone completely.
In October 2018, complex.com said “This New Flip Phone Meme Gives Celebs an Offer They Must Refuse”.
For those keeping score, that’s a direct, physical threat to the celebrities breaking ranks.
In November 2018, ABC13.com said “Families opt for flip phone instead of smartphone”
The author deviously cuts “phones”, plural, down to “phone”, singular to blunt and minimize. But it’s just another hit-piece, fighting a desperate rearguard action to try to keep you from giving up the “technology” that collectively carries the deadly non-ionizing radiation.
In September 2018, Ian Bush said “Bend it like Samsung: Flip phones may return with 2018twist”, and that “It comes in the context of slowing smartphone sales”.
Where the hapless rube is hoped to fantasize that buying this new phone will be like executing a difficult, almost-impossible soccer shot that takes years to master, and then only by a select few – only without doing any work. They want to trick you into buying a phone that flips open, but that is just as deadly and weaponized and addictive as your current, so-called “smart” phone. In the propaganda trade, it’s called a “bait-and-switch”.
In November 2018 the Verge said “The foldable phones are coming”. Pushing the hot new meme of the moment, “foldable”, you know, like CASH?
In November 2018, CNBC.com said “Samsung Has a New Flip Phone and It Sells for $2700”.
Lotta, lotta social engineering going on, here. There’s a deviant subset of the populace that will by this device precisely because it’s stupidly-expensive. It’s called “conspicuous consumption”.
There’s also a separate play where pricing it that way so that owning a thousand-dollar iPhone will seem “responsible” and “old school”. My flip phone was forty bucks, in 2010, and I was angry they charged me anything for it, having gotten my first one for free when I signed up. The sordid tale continues in that, when my 2010 phone finally, er, gave up the ghost in 2019 (I dropped it while it was open), I paid $72 for a used one on eBay.
In October 2018, CNET said “Your kids hate your smartphone addiction”.
It’s a bizarre reverse-psychology hit-piece, just like the ones we reviewed previously. It’s to get you to think that neither your kids nor everyone else’s are addicted to their phones.
In October 2018, DeviceAtlas explained “The truth about ‘peak smartphone’ “, and that “A growing number of smartphone refuseniks have pushed smartphone fatigue into the realms of a fully-fledged backlash.”
Ah, the ad hominem personal attack, a sure sign someone has lost a debate. The word ‘Refusenik’ has a straight-up “Commie!” inference about it. “Into the reams of a fully-fledged backlash hedges it back a step from “have pushed smartphone fatigue into a fully-fledged backlash”. In propaganda, the insertion of that hedging generality is called “watering it down”.
In October 2018, Forbes explained “The Truth About Smartphone Addiction, And How To Beat It”.
They’re playing like the 54% of US teens addicted to their phones were all somehow looking at it the wrong way, or hadn’t had the proper methods of addiction avoidance explained to them previously.
The author continues: “I’m not saying we should get rid of smartphones and cancel our WiFi. There’s nothing wrong with using the technology available to us.”
It’s not the technology that’s fucked up, you see, but rather it’s YOU, loser.
In November 2018, Good Morning America explained “Why you should get your kid a flip phone instead of a smartphone”.
They’re fighting the desperate rearguard action to keep people from cutting their children off from the deadly stream of non-ionizing radiation carried by we have collectively described as “technology”.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 600 points in November 2018, with Apple leading the tech rout.
Apple’s shares decreased 11.5% from November 1st to November 12, 2018.
On November 12, 2018, as the headline to an article documenting the largest drop in the corporation’s history, Mercury News widened its eyes to simulate honesty and asked “Is Apple seeing an iPhone sales drop?” Where “seeing” a drop “walks it back” a step from Apple actually experiencing that drop.
In November 2018, The Star Online’s Tech News widened its eyes to simulate honesty and asked “Are Americans addicted to smartphones***?***”
Can you see how the hit-piece “compartmentalizes” the international addiction to technology merely to the U.S.?
The Star is an Organ of the State, using conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty to aver that they don’t know that 54% of US teens are addicted to their smartphones.
In November 2018, NBC News said “Cellphone radiation may cause cancer in rats, reportfinds”.
They wrote it that way to give the subconscious of the reader the green light to say “oh, but that was just one report!” The propagandist knows that many or most readers will grasp virtually any straw, no matter how thin, to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.
NBC goes on to say “We agree that these findings should not be applied to human cell phone usage,”
In November 2018, CNN said “Xiaomi blames falling Indian rupee for smartphone price hike”.
Prices decrease either when demand decreases, supply increases, or both. Here, Organ-of-the-State CNN supports Communist Red Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi assertion that the decrease was due to vagaries in currency valuation.
They put a brave positive spin on the price increase, calling it a “hike”. How vigorous!
In December 2018, appleinsider.com explained “Why Apple is now focusing on users, not units in Fiscal 2019”.
They’ll ride the collapsing scam for years or perhaps decades, just like the folks selling soda, particularly diet soda. Language is very instructive: people addicted to heroin are also called users. “Are you using?”
In December 2018, a solid year into the collapse of the so-called “smartphone” market, Medium.com fought a desperate rearguard action with “Smartphones Are the New Security Blanket for Kids”, and “Their phones can help them feel connected to their friends and more importantly, to their stable identity. Let’s not shame them for these”.
The author takes care not to mention that, in 2011, the World Health Organization classified mobile phone radiation as a group 2B carcinogen, which means it is possibly harmful to humans.
Medium.com is using conscious deception with the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty to aver that they don’t know that cancer increased 40% in young people in the U.K. from 2000 to 2016. 2000 was right when the literal forest of what is purported merely to be “communication infrastructure” was thrown up suddenly in all the nations. Using a generalization and a half-truth, the U.K.’s Telegraph said “Modern life is killing our children”.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. That’s why a New York Times article from June 1991 is headlined “Study Finds Mysterious Rise In Childhood Cancer Rate”.
International smartphone sales decreased 6% in the third quarter of 2018.
In December 2018, Nikkei.com said “Huawei defies smartphone downturn with ‘stable’ forecast”, and that “Huawei Technologies is expecting the global mobile market to be “stable” in 2019, in stark contrast to growing pessimism from rivals”.
The author plays that everybody but Huawei just has a “bad attitude”. I wish them the best of luck if that’s the strongest defense they can muster.
In January 2018, Psychology Today explained “Why Your Smartphone Is Destroying Your Life”.
The subhead reads “And what you can do about it.”
They’re playing like they’re protecting you, but it’s actually a careful rearguard action in which they’re attempting to “compartmentalize” the collapse of technology merely to the so-called “Smart” phone, while leaving the rest of your internet connections pumping the flow of purportedly-harmless non-ionizing radiation into your skull.
In February 2018, the U.K.’s Independent said “Global Smart Phone Sales Suffer Biggest-Ever Quarterly Drop”.
Can you see how “biggest-ever quarterly drop” is general? As you may recall, generality is a hallmark of propaganda. Since sixty to seventy percent of readers only read the headlines, this hedging generality goes a long way toward “compartmentalizing” awareness of the scope of the positive change I’m documenting here.
In July 2018, androidtech.com said “Creepy tech: Samsung phones are randomly sending users’ photos to contacts.”
In July 2018, rd.com said “Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You”.
In September 2018, cnet.com said “10 years later, Google still has the creepy ability to remotely control a phone.”
In December 2018, the U.K.’s Sun said “Google and Apple selling creepy apps that let your lover spy on you, monitor your calls and search your internet history”.
In January 2019, detroitnews.com said “Home devices are getting smarter, creepier”.
January 2019, apnews.com said “Home Items Are Getting Smarter And Creepier, Like It Or Not”
Creepy – adjective (informal) - Causing an unpleasant feeling of fear or unease.
Wikipedia: The state of creepiness has been associated with “feeling scared, nervous, anxious or worried”, “awkward or uncomfortable”, “vulnerable or violated” in a study conducted by Watt et al. [6]:61 This state arises in the presence of a creepy element, which can be an individual or, as recently observed, new technologies.
In 2019, 48% of Japanese aged 10-19 said they had thought about living without a “smart” phone, the highest percentage among all age groups polled.
In February 2019, telsyte.com.au said “Smartphone sales drop due to growing cost”.
Can you see how “smartphone sales drop” and “growing cost” are both general? As you may recall, generality is a hallmark of propaganda. Since sixty to seventy percent of readers only read the headlines, this hedging generality goes a long way toward “compartmentalizing” awareness of the scope of the positive change I’m documenting here.
“Growing cost” is a bullshit plausible-deniability excuse, put forward to defray awareness of the fact that the populace has recognized that technology has been weaponized against it.
In February 2019, phys.org said “The smartphone market is down but not out, with high prices and other factors combining to chill what had previously been a red-hot sector.”
Can you see how “smartphone market is down” and “high prices and other factors” are all general? As you may recall, generality is a hallmark of propaganda. Since sixty to seventy percent of readers only read the headlines, this hedging generality goes a long way toward “compartmentalizing” awareness of the scope of the positive change I’m documenting here.
“High prices” and “other factors” are bullshit plausible-deniability excuses, put forward to defray awareness of the fact that the populace has recognized that technology has been weaponized against it.
International sales of so-called “smart” phones decreased 3.2% in 2019. It was the third consecutive year of decreasing sales. So much for Hauwei’s “stable” forecast.
Flip phone sales increased 5% in 2019, increasing for four consecutive quarters, comprising roughly a quarter of all phones shipped.
In January 2019, Credit Suisse predicted a 19% decrease in smartphone sales in the first quarter of 2019.
In January 2019, whiskeyriff.com said “Brett Eldridge is going back to the flip phone in 2019”.
The folks in charge are fighting a desperate rearguard action, trying to keep the populace connected to the devices spewing purportedlyThe article continues: “We get it dude. In the times were living in, it’s extremely difficult to stay present. With every fucking ounce of what’s happening in the entire world at your fingertips, it’s hard for a teenager to put the phone down, let alone a country music superstar (or website blogger) trying to make a dream work. I wish I could go back to the flip phone, delete all my socials and not give a flying fuck about what all these other people are doing, but work’s got to get done. I mean, how else would I have even seen that Brett was doing it if I wasn’t on Instagram… pretty ironic huh?”
Where “dude” is pejorative, unflatteringly conjuring Jeff Bridges’ character in “The Big Lebowski”. The curse words are there to jar and repel you. The “huh?” meme that closes the paragraph piggyback’s on “duh?”, giving the slack-jawed reader clearance to stay tuned in and turned on.
“Country music superstar” suggests “you can only achieve this if you are rich.” “Or website blogger” implies that Brett Eldridge is a hypocrite.
The whole thing is what is referred to in the intelligence trade as a hit-piece.
(Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey Lebowski in “The Big Lebowski”, 1998)
In January 2019, Jason Kehe at Wired wrote a hit-piece entitled “A Year With a Flip Phone”, saying “For eight months this year, I used a flip phone. For most of those eight months, I hated myself and everyone else.”
Did you notice that Jason called eight months “a year”?
Saying “I hated myself and everyone else” is an example of something called “hyperbole”.
In January 2019, Salon.com said “Foldable phones are the future no one asked for”.
It’s chaff, a half-truth - salon.com is using sleight-of-hand to mask the collapse of the wider smartphone market.
The same tactic was used by asia.nikkei.com in January 2019 with “Foxconn December sales plunge as consumers abandon iPhone”. As if the collapse was limited to that single brand.
In January 2019, onecountry.com said “Brett Eldredge Kicking Off 2019 With The Flip Phone Challenge! “I Am Going Back In Time to 2002”
To start 2019, I am going to go back in time to 2002,” he captions a photo with his guitar, a notebook and his old phone. “That was the year I got my first color flip phone with a lil megapixel camera on it…I felt like a bad ass…I would carry it everywhere I went but never look at it to check the never ending ‘Breaking News’ or constantly compare my life to someone else’s…I wouldn’t sit at the dinner table and be halfway paying attention to my buddies convo’s because I was watching someone’s story about how good, or bad they were at ‘Flossing’ or how quick someone could chug a bottle of vodka and do a triple backflip into a pool.”
He continues, “I was there, in the moment, with my friends, with life…Don’t get me wrong, there is a lot of amazing things about a smart phone…but I gotta take a moment to experiment and see what it’s like to be here, RIGHT NOW, lost in the music and not in a screen…if ya need me, I’ll be on the T9 text machine…here goes the #FlipPhoneChallenge.”-
It’s a hit-piece…a desperate attempt to keep people from ditching technology entirely. Purportedly-harmless non-ionizing radiation is pouring out of the flip phone into my skull just like it is with it’s heavier-hitting big brother, the so-called “smart” phone.
International smartphone sales decreased 9% in the fourth quarter of 2019, the largest-ever decrease in smartphone sales since the device’s inception.
International sales of so-called “smart” phones decreased 12.5% in 2020. That’s an average decrease of 3.1% per quarter over each of those four quarters.
2020 was the fourth consecutive year of decreasing smartphone sales.
Smartphone sales decreased 13% in the 1st Quarter of 2020, year-over-year. It was the first time since 2014 that the market had dropped below 300 million units in a quarter.
CounterpointResearch said that “the impact of COVID-19 on the supply side of smartphones and components could leave OEMs to diversify their supply chain by moving some production to countries like India and Vietnam.”
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
From “Politics and the English Language”, by George Orwell, 1946
All of their pathetic gambits are failing, anymore, which is why, in February 2020, the Verge said “Motorola Razr review: folding flip phone flops”.
International sales of so-called “smart” phone decreased 20% in the second quarter of 2020. A CNET article from August 2020 said it was “due to coronavirus”. As if a fifth of the population had been killed off, and rendered unable to use their otherwise-indispensable phones. Or as if being locked in their houses due to the barely-covert international release of a Chinese bat-virus with four amino acids added for improved transmissibility to humans would somehow make 20% of the populace suddenly unwilling or unable to have Amazon ship a new phone to their house in a nice blue box.
A Tech Crunch article from November 2020 is headlined “Gartner: Q3 smartphone sales down 5.7% to 366 million, slicing COVID-19 declines in Q1, Q2”. Can you see how they bravely avoided saying “smartphone sales down 5.7% in Q3, the thirteenth straight quarter of decreasing smart phone sales”?
You can clearly see in the data above that sales of so-called “smart” phones, claimed to be the most important and beneficial invention in the history of humankind, were dropping steeply well prior to the barely-covert international release of a Chinese bat virus with four amino acids added for improved transmissibility to humans.
International sales of so-called “smart” phones decreased 5% in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Because there’s literally no quit in these people, a Gartner article from February 2021 is headlined “Gartner Says Worldwide Smartphone Sales to Grow 11% in 2021.
The article goes on to say “After recording a 10.5% decline in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the industry, smartphone sales are forecast to rebound in 2021.”
(Young people wearing Covid masks and staring at their Smartphones)
The author spoke of “recording a 10.5% decline” to give the subconscious of the reader the green light to say “oh, but someone must have recorded that incorrectly!” The propagandist knows that many or most readers will grasp virtually any straw, no matter how thin, to remain off the hook of personal responsibility. But that’s all a sidebar, because I brought it up to point out that, just three weeks later, Gartner said “Smartphone sales declined 12.5% in full year 2020”.
Coincidence Theorists can meet amongst themselves and discuss how and why those two numbers differed so widely in those two articles.
I’m sure you noticed that, in both articles, the propagandist from Gartner took care to use the word “decline”, because it’s softer than “drop”, or “decrease”, and because it reminds you of the word “recline”. Also “declines” are gradual.
Eventually, a far more free flowing book will evolve from these highly-repetitive initial articles. Yet it’s crucial for the programmed mind to see and intellectually assimilate the ongoing use of identical linguistic propaganda practices down through time. The programming is laid in iteratively, and will be broken down in the same way it was laid in. Actually, I’m fixing the intentionally embedded bugs in the code, as it were.
We’re powering into the fourth straight year of decreasing smart phone sales, and the evil clowns who would have you think they’re the most important and beneficial invention in the history of humankind are predicting they’re going to start selling again like gangbusters, just you wait and see.
I think it’s obvious who’s winning this thing.
Jeff Miller, Pittsburgh, PA, July 22, 2021
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