• coffinwood@feddit.de
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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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          1 year ago

          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.