>>15782734The deliberate choice not to adapt.
My grandmother had a similar issue going on.
She was mortified of tech since late grandad was always breaking his pc in the late 90s and 2000s with porn-based malware and pcs were really expensive for them.
As a result she always kept a Nokia phone. Cellphones scared her too, but she could text her children so it appealed to her.
She kept regular oldass phones until 2017 or so, after years of pushing and pushing and pushing from my dad, uncle and aunt, and she was always scared of breaking a smartphone with one weird press.
Then the uncle said the magic words: "if you use WiFi and WhatsApp, you can text us for free".
Within two weeks she had a smartphone and fully mastered it, doesn't even need old-fuck mode.
It's entirely a matter of will.
Old people have learned and changed and adapted so much as they got older that they don't want to change again.
Cornette has enough money to say that spending $80 instead of $5 just so he doesn't have to learn how to navigate an app with the same TV remote is worth the expense.
