You can’t efficiently receive updates on your favorite football player through a phone call. You can’t really receive celebrity gossip via text message. You can, however, get all of this and more through smartphone apps. Although smartphones can spur innovation, they more often breed a whole new means of time wasting. Games and apps for virtually every small interest are available, each one vying harder than the last for your attention. As a result, smartphones consume more time with unproductive activities than with productive ones.