For hundreds of millions of people, mobile phones are not just their first computer but their first electrical device of any kind.
@BenedictEvans Do you you mean personal device?
i.e replacing what the walkman/disk-man was for the previous generation of teenagers.
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@oothenigerian How many farmers in rural Myanmar owned a walkman? A torch? A radio? -
@BenedictEvans I would also doubt a person who could never afford/operate/need a torch/radio would go for a phone as a first device. - 3 more replies
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