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> Will it be such a big deal though? Currently people are swapping out their phones for another model that's exactly the same but with a different number at the
by lelanthran 7mo ago
> Will it be such a big deal though? Currently people are swapping out their phones for another model that's exactly the same but with a different number at the end of the name every 12 months.
I don't think they do that at the low-end (nor the high-end, though that doesn't matter here - higher-end manufacturers have a small margin they can eat into). People on the low-end phones want a new phone, they just cannot afford it!
- jeffreygoesto 7mo agoBut why? I just replaced my Huawei P20 after eight years and only because nobody cares about app sizes and compatibility.
- crote 7mo agoYou just answered your own question. There's also the issue of phones occasionally getting broken, of course.
- pseudohadamard 7mo agoAnd would you consider yourself representative of the phone-buying public in general? My desktop PC is from 2008 but I'd never consider this to represent anything like common usage. In fact it's so unusual that I get to point it out in posts like this.
- Aerroon 7mo agoBecause the phones stop working well? I write part of a post, open another tab to go look up some information, come back to the post and what I've written is gone, because the memory got dumped. That's the reality of using an old cheap phone.
- wolvoleo 7mo agoIt is pretty insane to have an 800MB app where you need to create an account, just to be able to change two settings on a DJI microphone.
- einpoklum 7mo agoEven in the mid-end: If you buy a phone which you find to be decent, but affordable, and are not out for chasing the latest gimmick - there is no reason it would not last you 6 or 8 years easily - before applications start assuming the presence of better hardware, or a newer Android version than you have etc. Naturally you will have to protect it from physical damage, and maybe replace a battery at some point.