No one was keeping anyone from getting a kosher phone, and it's a lie to say otherwise.

Haredim have a long-standing practice of using other people's standards, which they would never use themselves, to their advantage.

There is an inherent problem with compromise amongst religiously driven people who believe their way of worshiping God is the only or even just best way. Because God is almighty and infinite, and transgression of his ways, in any way, is therefore a transgression against an infinite God, even the slightest compromise is impossible. Compromise with the outside world and general public? : Human-defined considerations are just non-starters. Strife amongst religious streams and sects are even more heated because there each side thinks they have God on their side.
Religious zealotry works. And it is resented. Inside and outside the system.

We agree on this. Hypocritical and unorthodox.Always have a problem with essentially postmodern pluralist "Live and Let Live"