Every adult in the modern world has a smartphone and buys a new one every 2.5 years. The consumer market figured out a long time ago that spending a lot of mon

Every adult in the modern world has a smartphone and buys a new one every 2.5 years. The consumer market figured out a long time ago that spending a lot of money on some new tech product when the one you already have still works fine is a dumb idea. No-one buys a new PC every 3 years any more either. I assume some people still get a new phone every couple of years because they're buying an overpriced deal from their network and it comes with a new phone each time they renew for another 24 months. Otherwise the networks wouldn't still push those plans as their default option. I'm not sure anyone I know does that though. From random personal conversations most of my friends and family seem to either keep their existing phone and switch to a much cheaper SIM-only deal once they've paid off the original deal that had a bundled phone or they buy their own new phone separately and then take out a SIM-only plan immediately.