Not really a valid comparison. Flip phones basically do just one thing, which is make calls or SMS. Calls and texts are just a very minor part of what smartphon

Not really a valid comparison. Flip phones basically do just one thing, which is make calls or SMS. Calls and texts are just a very minor part of what smartphones do. It's actually a little surprising we still call them smartphones at all. If you downgrade from a smartphone to a flipphone, you've lost an incredible amount of functionality. Meanwhile, electric cars, while nicer in many ways than ICEs, still fundamentally perform the same task. And if you downgrade from an electric to an ICE, you haven't lost any functionality.