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Hmm, fertility dropped “from June 2007 through February 2011”. And they attribute it to the iPhone. But what else happened during that period? Oh right a big financial crisis.
And there’s already data out there that shows an economic decline correlates to a drop in births
But they did have other smart phones and if the claim were true, that would mean its something only affecting Apple users and that the effects are nearly instantaneous which makes no sense.
Hmm, fertility dropped “from June 2007 through February 2011”. And they attribute it to the iPhone. But what else happened during that period? Oh right a big financial crisis.
And there’s already data out there that shows an economic decline correlates to a drop in births
I have my doubts too but to be fair they compared the data against Verizon and Sprint which did not have the iphone in that time.
But they did have other smart phones and if the claim were true, that would mean its something only affecting Apple users and that the effects are nearly instantaneous which makes no sense.
yes other smartphones existed but they were well behind iphone, especially in regards to web browsing.