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Thing is there are a lot of old people.

And there are more being created all the time!

Yeah, but new old people bring their habits from younger years like not using phone for making private calls.

You'll need a few years yet for that. Most old people around today used rotary phones unironically.

Hell, I'm not even that old (41), and we had a rotary phone until 1988 or so. We also had a touch-tone cordless phone, but the corded phone in the kitchen was still rotary.

I expect there are even younger people than I who used rotary phones as kids.

That would depend on the country, yet I'd consider late 30s to be the age. Also I am using the phone daily to call anyone - family, coworkers. It'd appear, around here, the ear buds have not caught up.

Even rotary cell phones [1] I'm old but that is too much for me.

I just bought my first smart phone and spent a while in developer mode quieting it down to extend battery life so some old people can do this.

[1] - https://skysedge.com/unsmartphones/RUSP/index.html

> so old people can do this

Some can, many won't. Eye sight and dexterity problems have a lot to do with this. When you can't see and your hands shake it's a lot easier to just "hey google call so-and-so."

Fair point. Edited my comment to include some.

And all of them were once the youngest people on earth.

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