First, you should find out exactly what is happening. Coroborate what he is saying.
Assuming things are as you say, fist thing is to teach fear management. Do light fear training. Nothing extreme, ideally something tailored to his psyche. Without this nothing is gonna work.
Then, teach him crowd control. I'm not joking. There is science on how to deal with a crowd. You don't need to explain advantages of Android, but how to use them to stand up to those kids.
Both of these skills are universally useful, and will help him in life almost guaranteed.
Maybe people simply have different spending habits.
Personally I try to stay away from "pay as you go" businesses. Moreover, I try to pay for the year upfront if I can help it.
Purely psycologicaly I think it's an attempt to take control of your future, you know? Reducing uncertainty is more valuable then many things...
"The best way to predict the future is to make it" and all that.
Like, if I'm not sure whether I'll need it and how much of it I'll need, there is something wrong and I'm not gonna buy it at all.
First, everything is a tradeoff. Do not expect to have a cake and eat it too.
Secondly, thiese are indeed two different levels. A database that serves as a single source of truth can be implemented as an entire cluster of serves with no single point of failure.. At least in theory ;)
Assuming things are as you say, fist thing is to teach fear management. Do light fear training. Nothing extreme, ideally something tailored to his psyche. Without this nothing is gonna work.
Then, teach him crowd control. I'm not joking. There is science on how to deal with a crowd. You don't need to explain advantages of Android, but how to use them to stand up to those kids.
Both of these skills are universally useful, and will help him in life almost guaranteed.