Kudo’s to the resourcefulness and entreprenuereal spirit of the ordinary Cubans - may they learn to use it in a way that liberates them from the jackwads at the top of the criminal enterprise that enslaves them.
And on a matter related to the other point in this article, I read on some site that if you destroy your iPhone by dropping it in water, you can often revive it by drying it out by hand as much as you can, and then placing it in a container of uncooked rice to dessicate out the moisture remaining inside. Don’t know if it always works, but it’s probably cheaper (and more pleasant) than taking the darn thing to Havana to get fixed.
I inadvertently washed and dried a memory stick once and it still worked.