I’m not a parent, but I don’t think these are strong enough reasons to skip over a dumb phone or even a basic burner android phone.
What would you hope to get out of your phone for band practice? Is it being able to contact your parents for transportation or letting them know where you are? Any phone can text or even call your parents. Do you want a device that can help you tune your instrument or be used as a metronome? This is a bit more compelling reason to help bump you up to a smartphone, but still an iPhone doesn’t seem necessary
Location tracking could be a more attractive reasoning to get an iPhone, but would you want your parents to be able to track you 24 / 7?
World War 3; if you learned about the past world wars, America entered the war later on (America entered WWI in 1917, it ended in 1918; America entered WWII in 1941, it ended in 1945). How would an iPhone help you in regards to WWIII? Why an iPhone over a dumb phone? Why an iPhone over an android phone?
The same questions can be applied to the economy crashing. How would you having iPhone affect you in regards to it? If you need to know when it happened, chances are you will hear about it either from the people around you or the media you currently consume.
Overall, I do not think this is a comprehensive argument to get an iPhone. You haven’t given reasons why a dumb phone would not fit your needs. You also haven’t given reasons why an android would not fit your needs. Your parents seem to be reasonable enough to give you a timeline of when to expect an iPhone, and as of right now, I don’t think your reasoning is quite there yet to convince them to push up that timeline
So the reasons you listed are:
I’m not a parent, but I don’t think these are strong enough reasons to skip over a dumb phone or even a basic burner android phone.
What would you hope to get out of your phone for band practice? Is it being able to contact your parents for transportation or letting them know where you are? Any phone can text or even call your parents. Do you want a device that can help you tune your instrument or be used as a metronome? This is a bit more compelling reason to help bump you up to a smartphone, but still an iPhone doesn’t seem necessary
Location tracking could be a more attractive reasoning to get an iPhone, but would you want your parents to be able to track you 24 / 7?
World War 3; if you learned about the past world wars, America entered the war later on (America entered WWI in 1917, it ended in 1918; America entered WWII in 1941, it ended in 1945). How would an iPhone help you in regards to WWIII? Why an iPhone over a dumb phone? Why an iPhone over an android phone?
The same questions can be applied to the economy crashing. How would you having iPhone affect you in regards to it? If you need to know when it happened, chances are you will hear about it either from the people around you or the media you currently consume.
Overall, I do not think this is a comprehensive argument to get an iPhone. You haven’t given reasons why a dumb phone would not fit your needs. You also haven’t given reasons why an android would not fit your needs. Your parents seem to be reasonable enough to give you a timeline of when to expect an iPhone, and as of right now, I don’t think your reasoning is quite there yet to convince them to push up that timeline