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According to the Texas bar association, for a huge number of poor people (at least, the ones that come to them to try to get free services to help with mediatio
by afarrell 11y ago
According to the Texas bar association, for a huge number of poor people (at least, the ones that come to them to try to get free services to help with mediation and guardianship of relatives), their only device to access the Internet is a smartphone.
- amyjess 11y agoMost likely, that refers to the homeless. It makes sense: homeless people have no residence, so nowhere to keep a PC, but a budget smartphone and a low-end data plan isn't terribly expensive, and it's a useful investment, because having any kind of Internet connection at all is instrumental to getting a job and thus staying afloat and possibly making enough to get out of homelessness.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Most likely, that refers to the homeless. Most likely, it refers to exactly what it says: poor people presenting for certain services; younger, minority, and low-income Americans are more likely than the population at large to be "smartphone-dependent", that is, have a smartphone as their sole source of internet access. [0] While it is (by far) not a majority in any of those groups, its a significant number. [0] see, e.g., http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/01/6-facts-about-americans-and-their-smartphones/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/01/6-facts-abou...
- afarrell 11y agoI didn't get a sense that they were referring to the homeless. I would naively assume that a homeless dude is unlikely to be applying for legal guardianship of his grandmother with dementia