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While this is fine for you, I worry about a sociocultural divide.

I believe the likelihood of a smartphone being the only form of computing (and access to the internet in particular) grows with diminishing income / cultural means.

This is based on anecdotal observation, does anybody here know of relevant survey data?



> relevant survey data

Based on a cursory look, keywords can include "smartphone-only internet users" and "large-screen computer ownership".

The American Community Survey asks questions related to that (income, computing devices). Comparing states, the poorer the residents of a state, the smaller the percent of households with regular computers ("large-screen computer ownership"), per "Computer Ownership and the Digital Divide" (Mihaylova and Whitacre, 2025) [0, 1, 2].

Also, Pew runs surveys on income and device usage ("smartphone-only"). Again, the lower the income, the higher the proportion that is smartphone-only [3, 4].

[0] Chart: https://files.catbox.moe/emdada.png

[1] Paper, "Census Data with Brian Whitacre.pdf": https://files.catbox.moe/1ttgee.pdf

[2] Web: https://www.benton.org/blog/computer-ownership-and-digital-d...

[3] Pew chart: https://files.catbox.moe/fs62tf.png

[4] Pew web: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/


It sounds like lower income people aren't Real People and don't need Real Computers.

The idea that smartphones aren't computers and their users aren't deserving of software freedom is frustratingly entitled.




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