Your parents sound shitty but not for the 'no tv' rule tbh.

Studies show that toddlers can't learn from video.

oh really

A quick search surfaced this study: https://hechingerreport.org/why-your-toddler-cant-learn-from...

GP said studies, plural. I cannot confirm that. But the linked study is consistent with what I observed in my child when he was a toddler.

Yes, really.

There's plenty of studies that show that.

guess toddlers are dumber than babies then https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/01/singing-to-b...

The comment you made is obstinate and vapid. It does not refute my point and does not even address it. The article you posted has nothing to do whatsoever with the topic at hand. Neither does it discuss toddlers, nor does it discuss the influence of screen time.

If you don't have anything useful to contribute, please be silent. This is not Reddit.

Please do your own research next time.

> The review indicated that an increase in the amount of screen time and an early age of onset of viewing have negative effects on language development, with older age of onset of viewing showing some benefits. Video characteristics, content and co-viewing also influences language development. This study demonstrates that the negative influences of screen time appear to outweigh the positive influences.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8905397/

Why?

It's the phone of other kids, they will not give their phones away

It's not that - but it's being left out.

If all of them will use phones and chat via them, not having one will be social isolation.

We are planning an apple watch at first. Can do both of those.

Seems like fair compromise.

Truth be told I realise that this is a case where whatever you do, there will be consequences. I myself I don't really know how I'd approach that.

I didn't understand your comment. Why what?

I'm pretty sure that's their gatekeeping.

I looked at the price for m3 and if it would have 16gig it would literally be perfect for just 1k but nope 8 more gigs cost you an arm and a leg

You forgot to mention the 256GB SSD.

I had a Macbook Pro 2015 with 256GB SSD. (Base model was 128GB). It was a very painful experience even back then. Yet almost ten years later, we are here, still paying $200 to upgrade to 512GB, when almost every Windows laptop comes with 512GB. FYI a 1TB NVMe gen 4 drive costs less than $100.

It's hard to believe, but people can be in the market for a product, but feel that paying 8x markup on the cost of an upgrade is ridiculous.

It's 20% more.

Nintendo started with consoles and the quality sign to make sure you buy quality after people were disappointed with Atari and other systems

And the target audience is still kids/family. Playing games doesn't need to be PC first or mobile first and it hinders quality.

Nintendo has the same right as Sony and ms to sell their system.

I would love to have it for PC, don't get me wrong, but families don't play games in front of a PC.

I don't think this argument is fair.