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It's not about WHY you "have to" get a flagship phone. It's about the fact that the flagship phone is 20% more expensive than it was 5 years ago, yet that isn'
by Enginerrrd 5y ago
It's not about WHY you "have to" get a flagship phone. It's about the fact that the flagship phone is 20% more expensive than it was 5 years ago, yet that isn't counting toward inflation with the CPI. Christ, we could use a standard of computation from a 1980's calculator and REALLY offset rising food prices. Hence the gamesmanship. Maybe I can offset the rising cost of my food basket by switching out to lower quality (or shrunken) goods for the same money, but you can't look me in the eye and tell me I have the exact same buying power as before with the same money.
- jefftk 5y agoThe point is that if you want a phone with the capabilities and performance of a good one from five years ago, you can buy that today. It will cost you substantially less (in nominal dollars) today than it would've cost five years ago. How does that not represent a person with a given number of dollars being able to buy more, in this instance?
- stjohnswarts 5y agoNo it won't since software will require that additional compute power so I can watch star trek as a 3d hologram.