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Totally understand your position. For what it's worth, a lot of the higher end phones these days are much more durable. I have a handful of years out of date ip

Totally understand your position. For what it's worth, a lot of the higher end phones these days are much more durable. I have a handful of years out of date iphone and am not careful with it. It's been through a lot. I have always had a hard silicon case on it (seems dumb to not use a case), but the phone itself genuinely still looks brand new. Also if you buy a few generations old refurbished, it's only a few hundred, not $1k. All this being said, of course apps should run on low-mid end hardware. They're still wildly powerful devices.

MarkusWandel 2y ago
Fair enough, but disasters still happen. Someone in my family dropped a fairly late model iphone into a lake. They did recover it the next day, but by then it had leaked, i.e. it was deeper than the pressure it was waterproofed for. A friend had hers snatched by thieves. Gone in an instant. I don't in general need the power (or camera) of an expensive phone (except for the app mentioned). And I'd rather have a recent, lower-end one than an older higher-end one, having been burned a few times by apps "not compatible with your device" due to the OS being too old, admittedly only on older iDevices that the kids play with or truly ancient Android tablets. Oh, and two iPhone 7 vintage devices that were given to us as kids' playthings a few years ago (both with forgotten activation locks, so useless) were absolutely thrashed. They are tough but not infinitely so.