[ghaff]

Desktops/laptops aren't a necessity of life for many people. In general, I'd say smartphones were a far more universal necessity today.

[Jimmy]

Sorry, that may have been poorly worded. I wanted to preempt the objection of “well, you say you don’t want to be dependent on smartphones, but then you’ll just be dependent on some other type of computer”. I wanted to make it clear that the problem is about rethinking our relationship with computing in general, not just with smartphones.