> I also can't imagine $100 is easy to come up with in countries below level 4[1]. Apple has as low as 0% penetration in those countries. The market has solved

> I also can't imagine $100 is easy to come up with in countries below level 4[1]. Apple has as low as 0% penetration in those countries. The market has solved this problem. They still use technology; there are alternative platforms. Android, Windows, ChromeOS, KaiOS, and desktop Linux (which has as high as 5% market share in India) are cheap to use and develop for. It was always going to end up this way. There's the brand for the haves and the brand for the have-nots. Although even people on welfare in the United States have iPhones, consider that they're still the elite in global terms.