Comment on 4.3 Billion People Now Own Smartphones

nostradiel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ram@bookwormstory.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Smartphones are at a level of ubiquety in many societies where depending on where you live, even the poorest of individuals will have one. It’s not uncommon at all to see homeless people around starbucks getting free wifi to connect online with whatever smartphone they have. It’s really dependent on where you live whether a smartphone is at all correlated with wealth.

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  • balder1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All societies changed because of computers and smartphones. Lots of people forget that especially for poor people smartphones brought so much benefits that were not accessible before, such as online banking (not needing to go to a bank branch), being in touch with family even when moving away for work, much more access to information (despite the low barrier of disinformation nowadays), online courses, healthcare tips etc.

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  • nostradiel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m not talking about people who have Starbucks around. 🤣

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  • callouscomic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But but but the Boomers told me things about having a smartphone and drinking coffee that means you MUST not be poor.

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