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Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 2 days ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/economics@lemmy.world

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Nearly half of our readers now wait three years or more to replace their phones as spec upgrades have plateaued.

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's innovation! What are you even talking about‽

I just upgraded my phone two months ago and now two of the four cameras (which is the same number as my old phone that I bought four years ago) have something like 20% more pixels!

Also—now that I have the latest chip—I can talk to my phone in like three more languages. I don't speak any of them, but... Innovation!

My new phone is also significantly heavier than the old one and the battery life is like 10% better than my old phone when it was new! Also, my display has a few extra lines of resolution on the top and bottom!

No innovation? Hah!

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't forget all of the stupid AI bullshit that you need to disable manually

[–] Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Adorable to think you can even disable it in first place.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

You can turn a lot of it off, but yeah I'm sure there's shit in there that you can't