Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy

[8WON6]

I remember Sprint had to send me a letter telling me to trade in my Galaxy S8 because i had it so long.

 

[hood b. goode]

 

[Seoul Gleou]

 

[Scaaar]

So they're complaining about people not consuming as much but at the same time annually releasing phones with only incremental upgrades. How about actually be innovative and that will drive sales lol

Also the bigger fundamental issue is that you're pricing the very people out of the market that you need them in to sustain yourself. The writing is on the wall but they're too greedy to correct course

 

[The_Sheff]

I’m on a 12 Pro.

It does everything I need it to. Why buy a new one?

 

[Address_Unknown]

My cell phone has to actually stop working before I replace it.​

Even though I can afford to cop a new phone whenever the new one comes out, that's like buying NBA 2k/Madden each year, when the changes are miniscule to non existent past Roster updates.
One of the reasons I will forever fukk with Samsung/Galaxy phones, 'cause changing the parts in them bytches for the most part easy as shyt
-Replaced the atannae to make calls is a breeze.
- The charger ports are practically plug and play.
- Replacing camera lights easier than a mug, even if you have to do some light soldering.
My Note 10 plus is giving up the ghost and I've had that for a solid 5 years and would hold onto it for another 2-3 if the screen light wasn't fading/getting fukked up, the microphone going 'deaf' and the fact that it's starting to Freeze/grow hot when using Facebook but I think that's just Lizard man angry at me that I won't download his app for nothing. Motherfukk a Zuckingberg command.

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[tay1]

Phones are getting more expensive and people lease their phones.

 

[Sir Richard Spirit]

Unnecessary upgrades lining the pockets of these companies.

29 months for a technical device is new age stuff, if this was the 80s youd keep it a decade at the least.

People were cool with upgrading when it kept getting better. We came along way from flip phones to now. There’s not much further we can go with the current design of phones tho.

 

[ScoopNScore]

Planned obscolecence ain't hittin like it used to ah well

 

[letti cook]

I just had to buy a new phone last week and I was pissed...my old one just stopped playing sound and no one could hear me when they called. I was still going to keep it cause I'm that cheap but then I figured I might get into shyt and it's gone be a bytch realizing "oh that's right can't nobody hear me"

 

[3rdWorld]

People were cool with upgrading when it kept getting better. We came along way from flip phones to now. There’s not much further we can go with the current design of phones tho.

Upgrading so you dont feel outdated

 

[Sir Richard Spirit]

Upgrading so you dont feel outdated

I have an iPhone 13 Pro Max. I only got it because it was free



I have no social media. I use my phone for conversations, music, web browsing. porn.


IMO my phone is perfect. My wife and kids think I’m crazy. I don’t

 

[Doctor Doom]

Only time I've ended up getting a new phone is because my screen gets fukked or it stops working

Upgrading just because is hypebeast shyt

 

[karim]

time stamped
TLDW
we define economic growth by the value of stuff
which is not the same as the volume of stuff
So there's no one to one link between economic growth and consumption of resources

In theory maybe. In practice there has never been an increase in growth that wasn’t linked to an increase in resource consumption.

 

[prince_peoples]

my 3 phones are a 12 pro, a 11, and a 13.

what’s the point of upgrading?