Apple needs to tackle the issue of smartphone addiction
Tony Fadell says,<p>&gt; I think that manufacturers and app developers need to take on this responsibility, before government regulators decide to step in.<p>Tim Cook recently said, &quot;I think the best regulation is no regulation, is self-regulation&quot;. And Tony Fadell expresses a similar idea here. That no regulation is the best idea and that companies should &quot;behave&quot; so that the status quo of no regulation continues.<p>But how do they keep these opinions in the face of all the enormous evidence that companies are very specifically designed to be unable to self-regulate? The very structure of a corporation today means it is incentivized to sneak by and almost break as many laws as possible to be short-term profitable. This is incongruent with long-term health, growth, capitalism, and everything else, because it is a strong forcing factor towards <i>very bad corporate behaviour</i>.  Constantly lobbying for &quot;no regulation&quot; or to act quickly before those big-bad-regulators come in to protect consumers from poison and addiction makes no sense.<p>Companies will behave badly as long as the law allows it. Suggesting that the companies should behave better while suggesting that there should be absolutely no consequence for bad behaviour legally is a bizarre doubethink. I don&#x27;t get it.