1. People cannot live without smartphones. I wonder how the past 10,000 were: how people made phone calls 100 years without smartphones, how they paid with card or cash, how to live without Facebook or WhatsApp. It must be terrible to be so entitled.
2. When people need smartphones, they should afford iPhones. Why a $100 Huawei is not enough?
3. When people have needs, someone is obligated to satisfy it. Oh, that sex maniac across the street ...
2. It's plenty enough. Phones have been plenty fast for years. The issue is finding a vendor that will support your software for long stretches of time which right now that is community Android distributions and Apple.
3. This is a bad-faith argument and you know it.
> Be kind. Don't be snarky.
Calling someone is not even on the priority list of a smartphone. But I can't access easily half of services (including banks) without an internet-connected device. Which is almost invariably a smartphone.
Bullet point 2: older versions of iPhones can be had for that money