The Dread Slender Gnome on Nostr: So apparently Apple is now bringing out a "white-labelled" iPhone model, designed for ...

So apparently Apple is now bringing out a "white-labelled" iPhone model, designed for parents to buy for their kids. The idea is that the phone itself doesn't have any of the social media or whatever apps that kids could get into unpleasant things on, but that they have to be manually added by the parent.

And I still Do Not Get why a kid needs a bleedin' smartphone in the first place.
Give them a regular mobile, they can call, text, have an alarm, all the basics. But they can't get into deep shit on the Internet completely unsupervised.
No need for a fancy "white-labelled" iPhone with a special set-up.

Do people just have more money than sense or what's going on?