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A smartphone with monthly internet is a substantially more expensive proposition. It is a device that can fail or break at any point without immediate recourse.
by Daishiman 3y ago
A smartphone with monthly internet is a substantially more expensive proposition. It is a device that can fail or break at any point without immediate recourse. You are at the mercy of a Google/Apple duopoly and are forced to carry around this device for even minor trivialities.
Smartphones are tracking devices as well. There are really good arguments to be made that I should reasonably opt out from an un-auditable, expensive hyper-tracker with a monthly subscription cost.
- scarface_74 3y agoYou can always get a cell phone and not enable cellular and download anything you need before you leave home. I travel a lot and I do that so I'n not dependent on flaky wi-fi and poor reception in airports and other venues.
- Daishiman 3y agoThere are a lot of services that require their own apps as well as restaurants/museums/shops with no public wifi either. There's a lot of really badly-coded websites that demand safari or chrome.