One day, there will be a knock on your door.
"Good morning, this is the police. Is there something wrong with your phone? Is your phone broken? Can we provide you with a charge?"
"No, I must have turned it off accidentally."
"Can we assist you with an upgrade? The newer models don't have power buttons."
Tell somebody you use your phone less than 10 minutes a day and look at their face change.
Since children are universally not considered real people with real rights schools requiring them to have the right apps to perform their schoolwork are to be expected.
While not less than 10 minutes per day for me, but I was having this argument on reddit over the iPhone Air - people couldn't fathom that there's someone out there that is not on their phone 24/7, and doesn't use their phone as their main computing device.
I clock in at under an hour screen time most days. It's the least ergonomic device for me to do anything remotely serious. Can't even stand typing on a virtual keyboard. My laptop is, and will remain, my main interface to the net and communication with others.
You'd think I was some kind of weird hermit luddite because of it.
Nobody is coding or writing anything longer than an email or social media post on a virtual keyboard.
The average screen time for younger people borders on 7 hours. It's almost a third of the day or 40% of the woken day for most people. I still can't wrap my head around how that can even be possible, but then I see in public most people you look at in any given moment are reading, watching or sending/sharing something.
If the conspiracy theorists are right, the tech industry created a surveillance system beyond their wildest dreams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_the_Pussyfoot#Joyma...
"The remote-access computer transponder called the "joymaker" is your most valuable single possession in your new life. If you can imagine a combination of telephone, credit card, alarm clock, pocket bar, reference library, and full-time secretary, you will have sketched some of the functions provided by your joymaker."
Just about the only thing today that's meaningfully different from the novel is that our devices are smaller and have screens instead of using voice as the primary input/output method. Well, and they don't have a "medical" module that can dispense drugs (yet?).
Interestingly enough, in the setting of that book, possession of a joymaker is a marker of good standing, and lack of one (e.g. because one cannot afford to pay for service) basically makes one homeless and a target for all kinds of nastiness including from the cops.
Mother Russia: we'll take care about security, comrade, you just shut up and use a phone from this here list of approved models. And GrapheneOS? squinting suspiciously that's what extremists use to watch gay pornography; are you an extremist, then? No? Let's see if officer Rubber Hosesky here believes you...