When discussing the value of public education with an 8 year old girl who rides my elementary bus, we arrive at the following conclusion. Having children go to school and learn basic reading comprehension, writing, math, problem solving, but also to learn how to interact with others who may be very similar or different, known as social emotional intelligence, we do not speak inappropriately with bad words, we keep our hands to ourselves, we only speak to others in kind polite ways, making our best effort to always do what is correct or best in any situation, knowing that even trying our hardest we sometimes slip up and make an error or mistake, but sometimes saying nothing actually the wise way, look and listen more, you can learn a lot by just listening to and watching other people interact, so called Monkey see Monkey do, and in a way copying someone who is showing you the best way of doing something a great form of flattering them in a complementary positive way, for example when you teacher shows the class how to perform a math problem, if you make an effort to take notes, do practice problems and apply yourself to understand well enough that you could teach someone else how to do it, that is how you know you are applying yourself enough, and besides when a game overly easy it can become boring to play more quickly, so harder games can be more engaging and fun, and you can apply this idea to any personal character challenges to become a better person one day at a time with mercy and grace for yourself and other people who you have the blessing and fortune to interact with
Texting Someone in The Same House, Global Data Travels Across Vast Networking & Back, Wasting Electricity
In today's highly digital world, even low income people in developing countries carry a smartphone daily, as do many homeless people and free loading children living with their parents, in many instances even young kids now has their mom or dad's old phone, noting that in a high income family in America, if one of the parents was using an iPhone 16 for about a year, then just bought an iPhone 17 but instead of trading in the 16 to Apple for a $350 discount on the 17, they give their kid the 16 used as their first smartphone.
Now lets consider that I just paid $915 for a brand new "white" iPhone 17, but am in the middle of data migration hell to get what I need off iPhone 14 in very good condition before factory resetting it to trade it in for $250 so my total actual cost of iPhone 17 -14 traded in becomes $665, thank you Apple for such a great deal to be soon transacted on a trade in once data migration complete :) Now that you know a little bit about my pocket super computer situation, or that we have wifi so well setup that its almost like information furniture, hard to imagine operating with it.
Yet smartphones brand new, considering the cheapest android models I know about in US dollars are available in developing countries for around $100 or one hundred dollars. This is no where near the so called Apple Tax range, $500 out the door and up for a minty fresh iPhone, noting they continue to sell 16e alongside 17, new iPhone Air, or most expensive premium flagship the 17 Pro Max, about $300 more than the regular 17, yet the regular 17 has better video and imaging capture than new iPhone Air, but with only 1 camera in back, iPhone Air "thinner" and "lighter".
Even within iPad range, thin in now, even MacBooks, it seems that Apple loves to design rounded rectangles eventually made in China using machined metal to make the Frame of such things, so called "unibody" noting a large iso slab of aluminum or titanium is 5 axis milled into a thin strong machined singular seamless part, they muscle that holds the glass, battery, mainboard, and CMOS sensors in place, the mount for all those different size screws in an iPhone, that keep it all together, along with really strong waterproofing adhesive around the edges of the front and back of those machine metal rounded rectangles, while Samsung Super Ultra AMOLED Hyper Elite ++++ screens adorn iPhones since model X back then.
The question is more what are people doing with all this technology, rather than specific technical details of what makes them physically a complex assembly of elements, or on a software levels allows the touch icon user interface to execute code inside the SOC based supercomputer stack, which almost mixed the entire computer into a single chip made by TSMC using AMLS latest huge ultra expensive lithography machines inside class 10 cleanrooms.