They can't build them that cheaply. They don't have the same scaling effects as the big brands, and they make an effort for sustainability which is a huge problem with cheap-ass phones.
It's mostly to achieve higher IP ratings, and people with expensive phones also tend to pay for things like cloud storage upgrades and expensive bluetooth earbuds.
Okay I see. I think I misread that part about censorship in your first comment. An interesting discussion for sure, because on one hand, art lets us explore things "safely" that we can't do in real life, but on the other hand, being fictional doesn't mean it doesn't have a real effect on people.
My second point was very important to what your initial comment said about progress in society, and you didn't respond to that at all so I'm not sure if you've read it?
Neither are those mostly conservative white men running our respective governments, looking to leverage what you propose to their own benefit i.e. censoring their critics on the left, labeling them domestic terrorists, rather than the fascist groups we were discussing.
Also you'll note I said public pressure - commercial brands can be a lot more responsive to bad press than political parties.
That's a good question to which no clear general answer can be given. What's considered male is a huge spectrum of things, both material and immaterial, varying across generations and cultures.
But most importantly, what it means to be male is very different from what it means to be seen as male.
Your comment basically says that society progresses at its own steady pace, and people demanding more rights and societal progress are impatient and wasting their time. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how society evolves. It's not an automatism, it is the direct result of people raising their voices and demanding rights. There is no progress without these efforts. So yes, their demands are currently unachievable - by definition. It's not a bug, it's not a mistake, it's a necessity.
You don't actually know that. You can identify as male, female, nonbinary, agender, genderfluid etc. all while conforming or not conforming to male or female gender stereotypes. One is intrinsic, the other extrinsic.
They can't build them that cheaply. They don't have the same scaling effects as the big brands, and they make an effort for sustainability which is a huge problem with cheap-ass phones.