• Bonehead@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    They weren’t entirely wrong. The numbers don’t lie. They just don’t say what the author claims it does.

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      1 year ago

      It’s directly in the headline: Gen Z is ditching the iPhone. That’s incorrect in two ways: A) it’s at best one in fifty people buying aforementioned feature phones and B) they don’t even know if all buyers replace their existing phone or buy it as an additional handset.

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        1 year ago

        I have both a smartphone and a flip phone.

        I kept both because the flip phone lets me make phone calls from my basement and many other places that the smartphone cannot.

        I have never met anyone else with this setup.

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          the flip phone lets me make phone calls from my basement and many other places that the smartphone cannot.

          Why? The smartphone supports everything the flip phone does. Honest question.

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              1 year ago

              Doesn’t seem very likely to me given that cheap feature phones likely use cheap older parts while flagship smartphones state of the art components.

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                1 year ago

                I don’t know what to tell you. If that’s his experience…

                • severien@lemmy.world
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                  1 year ago

                  I don’t know what to tell you

                  Well, you apparently don’t know the cause of his experience, so duh …

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            Yes, I could. But that allows the phone company to be lazy about coverage and building their network. The primary reason I pay a monthly cell phone bill is for a good network.

            It also gets into security issues that are different from cellular network use.

            And what if my internet is down and I have an emergency?

      • ChrisLicht@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I had a biz partner who is a centimillionaire. He has an iPhone for data, and a flip-phone for calls.