The commercial value of a ten year old smartphone in a wealthy country is approximately $0. It's probably not terribly hard for a determined child who goes to school and has friends to obtain one.

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johnnyanmac 6 hours ago | parent [-]

And I bet I'd struggle to install almost all modern popular apps on a 10 year old phone. No Youtube, no Roblox, etc. They simply wouldn't update nor connect. That's one problem solved by the fact that phones operate on a deprecation model, as opposed to Windows OS.

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epihelix 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm writing this on a seven year old phone (an S10e), running a community ROM with A15, and I have no issues at all in installing any apps. This device is my daily driver (it has a headphone jack and SD card support, and a relatively easily replaceable battery, and is small and light - so it's better than most modern flagships for my needs). A pixel would have much better community ROM support still. These old flagship phones are still plenty powerful for anything other than (useless) on device AI or intense 3D gaming.

There is only a "depreciation" model if you don't unlock your bootloader - and even then, a seven year support cycle makes it very easy to obtain cheap, old, fully supported phones, if that's your jam.

	▲	johnnyanmac 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>There is only a "depreciation" model if you don't unlock your bootloader That's fair. I also think most kids won't know how to unlock a bootloader (and if Google has its way, that won't be an option anyway). > a seven year support cycle makes it very easy to obtain cheap, old, fully supported phones, if that's your jam. Is that iphone support? I think only the biggest flagships get 7 years of official support (and can maybe run 2-3 more years before app version itself out, without external intervention). From what I saw, most budget phones are lucky to get 5 years of support, and will break down well before than anyways.

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Zak 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That may be, but quite a few of the things that people want to keep kids out of are entirely usable from a browser.