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Can Gen Z Get Rid of Its iPhones?

My dumbphone does what an app could never do.

First published in The Atlantic on October 9, 2025.

by Elias Wachtel, The Atlantic
October 16, 2025 | reading time: 9 Min.

In 2009, Apple coined a catchy slogan: “There’s an app for just about anything.” The original commercial is a time capsule from the early years—when the idea that smartphones could be used in every corner of life read more as a promise than a threat.

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