Tech addiction is a problem Apple won’t solve: opinion

A customer wearing an Apple Inc. logo t-shirt tests an iPhone X smartphone at the Apple store on Regent Street in London, U.K., on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017. ??Supported by resurgent iPad and Mac sales, the 10-year anniversary iPhone will help push revenue to a record high of $84 billion to $87 billion in the quarter ending in late December, Apple said in a statement. Photographer: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg

Two big shareholders of Apple Inc are right to add their influential voices to those concerned with smartphone addiction. If they are serious about finding a solution, however, they’ll start looking elsewhere for progress on the issue. 

Like tobacco companies before them, tech companies are incapable of studying their products dispassionately and then regulating themselves for the common good.