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At least for me, I don't really care about longevity past the point where I would want a newer device anyway, either because of improvements in technology, or because I completely broke or lost the old one. So as long as the parts all last about that long, I don't really care if they end up failing.
This is also how I feel. However, I donβt want to upgrade mine every year, I want to upgrade every ten years when it actually makes sense.
I feel we canβt both be made happy.
I'm personally on an ~5 year cycle. If you're on a 10 year cycle, I assume you just don't use your phone for much at all to even merit buying a new model even when you do upgrade.
10 year old phones can still game online and take bomb pics. What more do you need?
You and I are playing very different games if a 10 year old phone isn't struggling for you
Same. But there hasn't been an improvement in technology worth a phone upgrade in like 10 years.
10 years ago is the iPhone 5s. Which I still have one in a drawer, and damn near everything it has has been significantly improved in the decade since. Using it is a total pain in the ass
Well, that's on the iPhone side, which was lagging significantly behind Android at that time. 2013 was the Galaxy S4, which had LTE (still good today), all the same sensors phones have today, 1080p screen, 4k video recording, 13 megapixel camera, and 802.11ac (5GHz) wifi. It even had a headphone jack, micro SD card reader, and a removable battery, which is better than most phones now.
Drawbacks are that the RAM was low (2GB), the CPU is old, and the version of Android hasn't been updated in a very long time.
The only thing that has really upgraded in the last 10 years for Android phones is that that the RAM, CPU, and camera get incrementally better each year. There hasn't been a new technology or feature that I have cared about or wanted since then. And honestly, I feel like the camera was good enough 10 years ago as well. I couldn't care less if the camera on my current phone was the same as the Galaxy S4 camera.
I mean yeah, that's a pretty sizable improvement overall. Improvements don't have to be jew gimmicks in every new phone. They can just be steady, incremental upgrades, and over time there's a pretty noticeable impact.
My point is that it isn't a reason for me to go out and get a new phone every year. Or even when the phones are planned to go obsolete after 2 years. Maybe after 5 or 6 years, but definitely not 2. It's not because of new technology that I want that I get new phones. I get new phones because the phones are designed to completely fall apart after 2 years.
I'm curious where multiple people in my responses got 1/2 year replacement cycles from, considering all I said is that I don't need eternal durability.