Stanford students put down their iPhones to protest device addiction

No, it doesn't have the impact of the student sit-in to protest the Vietnam war that took place at Stanford in 1966. But you might consider this to be the 21st Century version of that event. Students from the California university staged a protest this past weekend at the Apple Store in Palo Alto to protest device addiction. More specifically, the group (named Stanford Students Against Addictive Devices or SSAAD) were complaining that Apple wasn't doing anything to stop users from constantly checking their iPhone and iPad devices.

Holding signs in front of the store in protest of Apple's ...