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I'm a huge phone hater as well. People I know irl are shocked to know I don't run flagship phones despite being a tech person. Sorry I don't want to shell over a grand for features I won't use.
All I care about is screen res, good panel, good battery life.
Why do we live in a place where you need to buy a new phone yearly?!
We don't... Maybe stop falling victim to FOMO and needing the newest thing that isn't much better than what you already have?
This is more an issue of your own mindset (and somewhat of a common one with Apple users in general in my experience) than with the tech. I've had 4 smartphones since smartphones were a thing, and I do have a desire to have the fastest, most powerful hardware. There just isn't enough difference in hardware to justify upgrading every time something new comes out, so I only actually get something new when my old thing literally stops functioning.
I have a 3 year old pixel and probably won't upgrade to any new phone soon. I'm talking about companies making it so people feel like they need to do so.
Even five years is shockingly low for me given how long we used to have the same stuff when I was a kid, like TVs and kitchen stuff. I still have the same knife from my first apartment (1996) and even then that knife was a decade old because it was a hand-me-down. But as soon as software gets involved everything suddenly gets super obsolescent 😭
Did you really just compare a smartphone to a knife?
"Why do we live in a place where you need to buy a new phone yearly?!"
Cause' that's how large corporations work today and that's how they can maintain the business. Do you think they care that you have a phone that lasts 5 years? No, they want you to buy more and more, That's why they make phones that degrade quickly and release new models every year.