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Fewer young children have mobile phones, telecom's survey finds

Mobile phone use among young children has decreased since 2021, but the biggest changes have occurred in the past couple of years, telecommunications firm DNA says.

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News · Fewer young children have mobile phones, telecom's survey findsMobile phone use among young children has decreased since 2021, but the biggest changes have occurred in the past couple of years, according to a poll by a telecommunications firm.
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5️⃣ 6️⃣ 7️⃣ & 8️⃣ Multiple antitrust cases in search, ad tech, cloud services and more could reshape Big Tech significantly.
#Antitrust #Search #AdTech #Advertising #TheCloud #Smartphones #OnlineShopping #BigTech

WTF else happen this week:

The National Folk Festival wraps up a good year, more universities have announced job cuts and Apple has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent in the past decade.
#Universities #JobCuts #Apple #Climate

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I think the #LightPhone3 is better than a shitty "#ProducedEwaste" #Android 8.1 brick from China but I don't consider it worth the premium asked [U$D 799 MSRP, U$D 599 preorder] for it.

I think people can get a better experience buying a #degoogled #Fairphone with #eOS and just put #RelaunchX as an #eInk-optimized #launcher on it and have a better option.

  • But I guess given #ForProfitHealthcare in the #USA is expensive I can see why a lot of people would rather buy such a device and sell their old one than seek therapy if they are susceptible to shitty patterns that #developers harness to maximize #screentime and #revenue.

Can't have #doomscrolling or #microtransactions if it doesn't support #NSAbook's #apps or shitty #PayToLoose #games...

What I do have to say is that #MKBHD acknowledges that he isn't the target audience and "that's fine"...

  • I just think that requiring people to sign up to some account just to be able to add/remove #Apps is a major #nope in my book.

I stayed off #GooglePlay for longer than it's being called like that and their "#lightOS" is most likely some tightly locked-down Android...

  • It's just an insultingly high pricetag for < $200 internals and the best feature they have isn't even the phone but offering a "no frills" plan which seems okay (by #USA standards!) but still...

I think people would be more accepting if it was a $299 or even $399 device, but at a price of a @monocles #phone whilst being way less versatile it's just not worth it.

  • Cuz it's not even a super "secure" device or offers something like a "concierge service" where the device price is artifically high to filter out average #WageWorkers without much disposable income...