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<grandpa voice> When I was a child </grandpa> our home used the same phone for 20+ years. Now they are stocking stuffers every year. And it's not because they
by supportlocal4h 4y ago
<grandpa voice> When I was a child </grandpa>
our home used the same phone for 20+ years. Now they are stocking stuffers every year.
And it's not because they got dirt cheap. Somehow somebody convinced us that life with an old phone is unbearable, even if it still works the same as it did on day one.
- autoexec 4y agoApple turned phones into status symbols and some people really will look down on you if you don't have the newest iphone or worse, any model at all of an android device. Apple also made batteries irreplaceable and forced iphones to slow down as they aged which I'm sure didn't hurt. Not everybody is buying into it, but I've seen both adults and children genuinely struggle with the social pressure they faced to have only the newest and most expensive iphone at all times and it was just depressing. When I was a child, nobody cared what phone you were using. You generally didn't care either as long as it could be used out of earshot of the rest of the family. For all the problems cell phones cause us, at least it's been a long time since kids had to suffer the pain of having to stand in their family's kitchen for every telephone conversation with friends and romantic partners.