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I mean, ok, but I get 3 years out of an iPhone most of the time now, and by then I'm pretty okay getting a new one because of the accumulated incremental improv

• meristohm 3y ago
  Only three years? I wouldn't have switched to this XR (2018) if a family member didn't have a good use for (and prefer the size of) my SE (2016). I still use a Samsung S3 (2012?) and laptops from ~2010. These things can last awhile, and should- they cost a lot to make, including the human cost of mining the materials. We're moving fast and breaking ourselves, and while that seems to be human nature over the millennia, maybe we have some choice in how culture develops?
  • ubermonkey 3y ago
    Again: the incremental improvements to the plaform are, by that point, a compelling enough reason for me to upgrade. The phones still typically work fine.
• ghaff 3y ago
  I usually end up on about a 3 year cadence for a similar reason and then use the n-3yr phone for a couple of secondary purposes like driving Apple Music to my stereo (at which point the prior phone's battery is probably shot and/or is otherwise not really useful any longer).
• crazygringo 3y ago
  Not to mention mobile devices, being mobile, are often lost or stolen or irreparably broken by the 3 year mark. Designing them to last 10 years doesn't make a ton of sense when shit happens -- being left behind in a cab or being dropped on concrete or falling into the pool or snatched when you left it briefly unattended. It's like when people wish for medical advances so we can live for a million years, not realizing you'll probably be hit by a bus long before that.