My thought was that it is a waste of resources: - R&D resources towards making things last less instead of more - If you are a technologist/researcher and you h

My thought was that it is a waste of resources: - R&D resources towards making things last less instead of more - If you are a technologist/researcher and you have to constantly pay for more equipment then it is harder to spend those funds in research. Also, I wouldn't agree much with the argument that new things take up space from new things. New and old can co-exist, the issue is that you are buying the same tech over and over again slightly revamped