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Wednesday, January 01, 2020
Broadway's 'Love Supreme' Aims to Curb Phone Usage With Yondr
www.ticketnews.com: As cellphones become more and more of a problem during live events, the Broadway show Freestyle Love Supreme is stepping up and taking action to end phone usage through the service Yondr.
1 comment:
Kaylie
said...
Having all of these individual pouches seems very expensive, but I definitely think something like this needs to be done. I went to New York for the first time over the break and someone got a phone call at the most silent and tense moment of Hadestown. It was infuriating. I wonder if Yondr somehow silences the phone for the patron. That seems to be the issue here. Sure, at concerts and other live events general phone usage is super common, but not so much in live theater performances. The issues I experience during theater performances are always centered around someone forgetting to silence their phone, not them using it in general. I have never seen someone at an expensive theater show browsing Instagram. If Yondr doesn’t block calls or anything, I don’t see the use for theater. I googled it, and it says online that if you set your phone to vibrate, you’ll still feel messages coming in because the pouches do not block or jam signal. With that in mind, I honestly think this pouch would be more disastrous than anything. At least when someone’s phone goes off, they are typically able to quickly silence it, but not if Yondr is being used. This only makes sense for concerts where the noise of a phone cannot even be heard.
1 comment:
Having all of these individual pouches seems very expensive, but I definitely think something like this needs to be done. I went to New York for the first time over the break and someone got a phone call at the most silent and tense moment of Hadestown. It was infuriating. I wonder if Yondr somehow silences the phone for the patron. That seems to be the issue here. Sure, at concerts and other live events general phone usage is super common, but not so much in live theater performances. The issues I experience during theater performances are always centered around someone forgetting to silence their phone, not them using it in general. I have never seen someone at an expensive theater show browsing Instagram. If Yondr doesn’t block calls or anything, I don’t see the use for theater. I googled it, and it says online that if you set your phone to vibrate, you’ll still feel messages coming in because the pouches do not block or jam signal. With that in mind, I honestly think this pouch would be more disastrous than anything. At least when someone’s phone goes off, they are typically able to quickly silence it, but not if Yondr is being used. This only makes sense for concerts where the noise of a phone cannot even be heard.
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