Link to 15min video from July 2022. Producer is an australian outlet. Apparently there is a growing movement to buy a brick phone, because people feel controlled by their smartphones. Selena Gomez is cited as being offline for four years and enjoying it.
That's a nice summary. I submitted this video, because i don't have a smartphone and i am pretty young.
Many friends of mine have one, but at the same time there is a sizable number of them which have older phones. I do have a computer, which i use for many hours a day, a pretty hefty computer at that, but i do not feel the need at all, to buy a smartphone.
Anyway the numbers are staggering, billions of older phones are sold every year, which is a little unexpected if you ask me.
Maybe the lack of transparency in Window phones (long live window phones), in Android phones, and Iphones is to blame. Closed source software, pulling software out of app stores on a whim, poor permission design of userspace and apps which enables spyware to thrive contribute to dumbphone revolution.
I am wondering if there are some well thought articles accompanied by some data on the subject.
