We've decided to wait till 10th grade to give our kid a smartphone. We might get a dumb phone sooner than that if they need to call us. It's easy to see kids getting addicted to any type of screen - TV, laptops, etc. Having a phone with them all the time seems like a terrible idea.
You could easily give them a basic iPhone with full lockdown on every app with just basic communication and internet browsing abilities.. why not that option?
iOS screen time/parental controls are a joke to bypass. To be clear I'm not aruging that parental controls are bad or not worth it--I'm arguing that Apple's built in mechanisms fail far too easily.
Why spend a few hundred dollars to turn an iPhone into a $50 phone? Feature phones give you communication and basic (if often painful) internet browsing abilities.
I hope not. We already have enough people who are "experts" because they have read books and articles. Dont need another one who then goes on to create yet another startup because now they are the experts.
As per my CEO, it's ok to do endless interviews to find that one good candidate. It doesn't make sense to me but hey it's not my money. One of our engineering managers was complaining that they had to do 80 interviews to hire one candidate. Colossal waste of time and money. No wonder these companies are still not profitable.
Took me twenty years to get it and the only reason it happened in 20 was the increase in number of available green cards due to covid. $5M+ earnings, leading teams of 30+, generating hundreds of millions in income for companies.
