The fact that you are so out of touch with reality shows that you have never spent any time around people who are in such unfortunate situations that they are just happy to have the free phone that is provided to them by the few companies who will offer the government subsidized program to those who need a phone.
You know what... it's never a cheap garbage phone that they hand out. Well, except the blackberries that they gave out one year. Even those were good phones, just had lots of people complaining about the signal strength (dropped calls at inconvenient times).
Each year, it's a different phone that is issued. It's whatever they want to promote that year. It's a good strategy. There are a lot of people who rely on this program in order to have any phone at all. Them walking around with a particular phone adds to the appearance of that phone being popular. It's the people who are in the program who recognize other people who are in the program by the specific model and color of the phones they see come out of other people's pockets. But, your average consumer sees tons of these phones around, and thinks oh, that's cool, look how many people have these, I want one too.
No, people on this program aren't busy playing games with the phones. They don't come with data plans. But, everything else works. It's just a phone. Something they are happy to have. They don't care what it is, just that they have one.
Having something like a phone helps them to put out job applications, and be able to receive calls for interviews.
Now, if you could come down out of your penthouse for a while, and dare to place yourself among the people who really are struggling, as in those who are genuinely struggling to feed their families, not those who just think they don't have enough money, but the ones who really are appreciative to just be somewhere, anywhere, happy that they have a home, and are fighting to do everything they can to better their situation... now, if you can bear to sink so low as to humble yourself and speak with them, get to know them personally, listen to them, maybe and just maybe you might learn something about reality.
You claim that poor people don't need technology and computers? You know what? In this world, they aren't getting ahead without it. And, they'll do what they have to do to provide their children a chance to keep up, learn, and have a shot to live a better life.
You speak the insensitive shallow words that you hide behind to pretend that you're not part of the problem. People like you love to spout things like poor people are just lazy bums, if they got off their butt they could make as much money as you, etc... such insensitive, shallow, and detached thought processes are exactly the problem.
Let me ask you a question... When was the last time you were living on the street and sacrificed all the food you had managed to come up with to someone else you stumbled upon who hadn't eaten for a longer time period than yourself?
You know what? It might surprise you that some of us here come from that life. Some of us have lived it, and spent years fighting against all odds to slowly elevate ourselves from being destitute and doing what we had to do for our kids in the mean time. And, those of us who lived through it, remember those who are still there and do what we can for them.
Enjoy your arrogant self centered perspective while you can. You had just better hope that when something takes you down, that the person who finds you is more compassionate than you are.
it is not even enough to use Safari to complain on MacRumors. 
