No offense was taken; there's no reason to apologize.

[If anything, he should be the one apologizing for making her fish for him...]

Different places develop at their own pace-- that's just how it is. The cellphones, like the devices we have here, are unheard of in my country, but we make up for the difference with tools that can serve an analogous purpose...if you're of the mind to make it or of the wealth to procure it. There's nothing terribly strange about it.