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There is a class of people who feel a smartphone is too much of a distraction to carry around all the time. They will carry around a flip phone that can do basi
by Fatnino 3y ago
There is a class of people who feel a smartphone is too much of a distraction to carry around all the time. They will carry around a flip phone that can do basically nothing beyond calls, sms, and camera.
These are otherwise perfectly normal members of society with bank accounts.
I don't know how common these people are. I happen to know a handful of them but I probably don't travel in typical circles.
- jperras 3y agoI live in a very Hasidic Jewish neighbourhood in North America; they (almost) uniquely use flip phones instead of smart phones. I've even seen women with cordless landline phones mounted to their shpitzel so that they can use it "hands-free", but without breaking their rules around kosher technology. Some context: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/19/kosher-phone-dispute-grips-ultra-orthodox-tel-aviv-suburb https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/19/kosher-phone-d...
- actuallyalys 3y agoIn case it wasn't clear, I didn't meant to disparage people without phones or computers (or for that matter, people without bank accounts), just to note they are a small group of people and shrinking.
- Fatnino 3y agoThe people I brought up used to have smartphones and made a conscious decision to go back down the tech tree. So an inflow to the no smartphone group. Certainly not outweighed by the outflow so the group is still shrinking as you state.