The cycle can be broken, though. Look at PC sales these days. PCs became good enough to meet most people's everyday home or office needs, and hardly anyone upgr

The cycle can be broken, though. Look at PC sales these days. PCs became good enough to meet most people's everyday home or office needs, and hardly anyone upgrades automatically every 2-3 years any more unless they genuinely need more powerful hardware. Meanwhile, aggressive marketing particularly to impressionable younger customers has kids and those who influence them raving about a notch or a third camera or whatever it is this week, even though the benefits of these relatively small changes are often negligible. This seems to be more of a cultural problem, possibly with a side order of exploiting vulnerable targets in dubiously ethical ways, than a technical problem.