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I suspect HN tends towards less likely to be enticed by shinny things and marketing hype cycles. My phone is pushing 4 years at this point. I always buy with th
by IIAOPSW 5y ago
I suspect HN tends towards less likely to be enticed by shinny things and marketing hype cycles. My phone is pushing 4 years at this point. I always buy with the expectation that I will get 3-5 years out of any phone/laptop.
Really want to see data on this one.
- haimez 5y agoIt would certainly be interesting to see the data, but I’m not sure if I’d expect the results to point towards any particular monolithic user trends. I think a lot of users (perhaps the majority?) are using flagship devices released within the last year.
- kemayo 5y agoMy logic is mostly that we're on a site which is targeted at people who're in a fairly high-earning profession, with the added bonus of it being a fairly change-friendly profession. If you're making Silicon Valley engineer money, whether you buy a new flagship phone every year is pretty much a matter of whether you want to, without money being a strong factor.
- IIAOPSW 5y agoIts true we could buy new phones yearly if we wanted to, but in my experience Engineering types are far less interested in social signaling / conspicuous consumption and far more likely to buy something based purely on the spec sheet. You have to do more than color your phone pink to convince us to upgrade. We know how that sausage is made. Both of our narratives are plausible. The only way to settle this is with data.