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If you had gotten the galaxy 7 (the new one) you'd still be fine. But none can predict what's future proof, mainly because it's what companies make their money
by zobzu 14y ago
If you had gotten the galaxy 7 (the new one) you'd still be fine.
But none can predict what's future proof, mainly because it's what companies make their money off. They NEED you to buy a new tablet, phone, etc, every year.
They'd make car breaks and need complete replacement every year if they could as well.
So, while it can happen that a product is "future proof" for a couple of years instead of one, it's rare.
Heck, even clothes are made to break quickly.
Of course, that's not very ecological, and certainly not cheap for the customer ;-)
- pyoung 14y agoI understand your point, but I am not sure I agree. The initial demise of the American automobile manufacturers was partly due to the unreliability of their products. Regarding tablets, I would think that locking people into a particular app ecosystem would be a higher priority than achieving a high tablet turnover rate. Seems like the money is in the apps, not the hardware.
- zobzu 14y agoIt depends, most of the hardware is not manufactured by Google (even thus it's sold in Google's name) So for example, Samsung, etc, (but mostly Samsung here) see a benefit in having the hardware expire as fast as possible (while keeping the balance of 'not having the customer complain about reliability or performance' and 'not letting the competition get ahead, or too much ahead') Almost a black art ;-)