It's acceptable if it's something you're used to the practice. Many Apple users use their products for seemingly infinite amount of time before retiring the dev

It's acceptable if it's something you're used to the practice. Many Apple users use their products for seemingly infinite amount of time before retiring the device, but even more users keep buying the newest and greatest when it comes out because A) they want to have the latest and/or B) what they currently had broke and the accepted solution is to buy new.