Use of iPhones hugely outweighs use of pagers these days, and it would more directly be notable to the public that they too could be carriers for hidden explosives that could be triggered by nation states at any time. It was hezbollah THIS TIME. it’s everyone’s business/concern that it’s POSSIBLE.

Do you really think nobody thought of sticking bombs in personal electronics before Israel did it to Hezbollah? Like, do you think it's the devices and not the specificity of who was using them that's the news here?