People Without Smartphones
This cluster discusses people who lack smartphones or access to them, often highlighting groups like the poor, homeless, children, or those by choice, and questioning tech assumptions requiring smartphone ownership.
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Sample Comments
Not all people have or want smartphones.
Not everyone has access to a smartphone at all times.
Because not everyone has a smartphone?
What if they don't have smartphones?
What about people who don't have a smartphone?
What if someone doesn't own a smartphone??
The alternative is not having a smart phone.
Not too ironic considering many are too young to have phones, or too poor to have them.
Homeless people don’t have smartphones?
Do people maybe see phones and related tech / services as sort of essential?