Article Review: Mobile Addiction's Impact on Children, Apple's Role

This report is an article review that examines the increasing issue of mobile addiction among children, focusing on the negative health consequences associated with excessive use of smartphones and tablets. The review analyzes an article that discusses the impact of digital technology on children, referencing information from UNICEF's State of World Children report. It highlights various health concerns, including concentration problems, impaired face-to-face interaction skills, vision problems, and obesity. The article also addresses the role of companies like Apple and the initiatives they might take to mitigate the problem, including new features and hardware modifications designed to help parents manage their children's mobile device usage. The review also discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the article, particularly its focus on the harmful impacts of mobile addiction while suggesting the need for more concrete solutions. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of generating awareness about the issue and the need for parents to adopt a balanced approach to screen time, as suggested by UNICEF's "Goldilocks' approach" to encourage moderate mobile usage.

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Introduction:
Addiction of children towards electronic gadgets like iPhone, tablets, is one of the most
discussed issues to the child-psychologists, doctors all over the world. According to the experts
smartphones, powerful electronic gadgets radiate magnetic waves that affects human beings,
especially children, multiple ways. The purpose of this study is to delve deep into the negative
health impacts of excessive mobile addiction and Apple’s initiatives in this regard; as depicted in
the article: “Apple needs to stop kids from getting hooked on phones”.
Critical analysis:
Identification of Author’s thesis:
In this article the author attempted to depict the impact of the digital technology on
children. In this context, information reveled in the State of World Children, UNICEF has been
focused. Further this article has reckoned at the severe health issues ranging from concentration
issues, problem in face to face interaction to loss of weak eyesight and obesity, which are
observed among children addicted to mobile phones. The final focus of this article was on the
demand of the Apple’s shareholders that the tech-manufacture giant should incorporate stern
initiative to restrict the usage of Apple iPhone as well as tablets by the children.
Summary, author’s opinion and Personal Experience:
In this article, the author with reference to the information reveled in the State of World
Children, UNICEF highlighted the issue of excessive usage of mobile and tablets by the children
at the very early phase of their lives, say 2 years. Children who at the age of 2 years use mobile
tend to be bewildered by the features lights color and sounds of the mobile and stare at mobile
constantly. This o not only impede the normal development of the cells of their eyes, but also

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becomes the reasons behind their sleeplessness and faulty postures. As they grow up a little they
o not enjoy playing outside rather indulge into mobile games which in turn becomes the reason
of their sluggish attitude and obesity. Again excessive indulgence to iPhones and tablets hampers
their power of concentration, makes them impatient. Since children of this era start interacting
with the outer world through social media applications of their phone they feel uncomfortable
during face to face interaction and find it difficult to maintain real world relations. All these
often put children as well as teen-ager into severe depression. This is common problems to the
children of the low-income families as well as the children of third world countries. In America
kids get their first mobile at the age of 10 and spend more than five hours using mobiles, chatting
talking and listening to music, which is enough for skin, eye as well as ear damage of a 10 year
old child. Wit reference to the dilemma of the millennial parents regarding their children’s’
addiction to smart phone and tablets the article emphasizes on the necessity to restrict children’s
usage of mobile by the-manufacture giant like Apple. According to this article Apple needs to
take initiative to arrange a long-term program to control mobile usage by children. In this
context, this article has also focused on the new feature that the Apple company is working on,
for the purpose of extending their helping hands to the millennial parents to protect their
children. Further, this article talks about the new modified hardware of Apple that enables
parents to restrict the content their children may go through in their iPhones and tablets. Further
this article has also incorporated the recommendations of UNICEF, regarding the control of the
millennial parents over the iPhone usage by their children, according to which the parents should
adopt a “Goldilocks' approach”. Under this approach the screen time or the time spent using
mobiles by children will be shorten in such a way so that, the children are encouraged to do

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moderate usage of mobiles. This approach also suggests parents to observe more, the content
watched and activities conducted online, by their children rather than the time spent online.
Strengths and weaknesses:
One of the strengths of this article is that, the harmful impacts of mobile addiction, on the
children are discussed in a detailed approach. The dilemma faced by the parents are also
addressed. However the article would have been more engaging if it would have focused more
on the probable initiatives that Apple is planning to take to or inventions of apple to control the
iPhone addiction of children. Further a more concrete solution to the said issue should be
recommended by this article. These are the two major weakness of this article.
Conclusion:
In the conclusion, it can be stated that, excessive indulgence to iPhones and tablets
hampers their power of concentration as well as the eyesight and posture. Mobile addiction also
makes them impatient, lower their social skill and lead them to depression. This article provides
substantial contribution to generate awareness regarding the harmful impacts of mobile addiction
of children with reference to Apple’s as well as UNICEF’S initiatives to control mobile addiction
of children.