Comment by Simulacra
There was a joy of tech comic a long time ago, in which Johnny Ives was discussing with Steve Jobs all the complexity of a smartphone, so many apps, so many buttons, that he had made a brand new phone: No apps, mo screen, it just makes calls!
A few years ago at least a feature phone probably was the right answer for many people. But smartphones are so normalized that they’re increasingly essentially a requirement for a lot of services.