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China produces ~65% of global smartphones. At worst US companies simply re-brand products from overseas OEMs, at best they're using Chinese produced semiconductors and components to create original products.
The rest of the consumer electronics market is pretty similar. If you believe modern China is communist then they are "doom-scrolling on their communist-produced smartphones" through a communist produced network infrastructure which you are, most likely, reading through a communist-produced screen.
I would argue however that modern China largely split the difference between the USSR, which you are McCarthy-ing about, and the modern Russian Federation, which explicitly reformed into a liberal democracy with a capitalist market economy.
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Let me simplify: iPhones are built and designed by, what you consider, Communists.
Android is capitalism appropriating the largely anarchist project of Linux. Which if capitalists had their way would've been strangled in its cradle.
Aaaaand, you have no arguments to the contrary...
Per my previous comment, reality disagrees with you.
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We do love deflecting, don't we?
What exactly is your point?
If it's "you can't critique society because you exist in it" that's beyond stupid.
If it's "smartphone are made in capitalist USA" that's occasionally true, but statistically completely divorced from reality.
If it's something else you are doing a terrible job of communicating it.
So in your worldview you can't wear cotton unless you are in full support of chattel slavery?
Who exactly are "you people"?
Why doesn't the same logic follow?