As I understand it, he said that he needed a few seconds to get his email out. If you can't get some sort of business leeway, what's the point in flying first c

As I understand it, he said that he needed a few seconds to get his email out. If you can't get some sort of business leeway, what's the point in flying first class? As I understand it he's not talking about carrying on all the way through the descent, nobody's died from having a laptop on during the descent, why go first class then?