No, it’s not because Apple may be forced to break the encryption in the terrorist’s iPhone.
There are plenty of other reasons.
According to the Financial Times …
“There is a busy market for phones that are simple and cheap at a time when smartphones are becoming ever more complex and expensive.”
Strategy Analytics, a research group, estimates that 44 million “basic phones” were sold in 2015.
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What’s driving the retro interest in dumb phones?
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