Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

• Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This 100%

  I have used tracfone since 2012 and only bought phones from their store, sub $150. The budget phones today are so much better than the last 10 years.

  I just can’t wrap my head around sinking that much into a phone when you replace it every year and it cost as much as a decent budget computer, but worse.

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  • Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I just can’t wrap my head around sinking that much into a phone when you replace it every year

    Usually the people who replace their flagship phone every 1 - 2 years aren’t paying full price for it, or at least not upfront. They are receiving trade-in and pre-order discounts, or spreading the cost out over a 12 - 24 month period through a plan with their telco.

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    • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I used my last phone for about 4 years. At that point the battery life was getting worse, and the coating to prevent smudges and make your finger slide easily had worn off in the middle. Even then it’s still perfectly usable, I just wanted an upgrade.

      I don’t understand the people that upgrade every year or two. In the last 5 years basically the only new development has been higher refresh rate displays and faker looking (more processed) camera images…

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      • Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I don’t think people are doing it because the new phones have better specs. It’s more a social status flex or because tech consumerism (buying new toys) is a default hobby now for many.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    People who upgrade every year sell their old one at >50% the price.

    So they don’t fork over €600, they only do €250 or so.

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• Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I make $19/hr and live paycheck to paycheck. I’m just being realistic about the current cell phone market.

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  • Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Surely cost relative to income is more relevant than cost relative to the rest of the market? Something doesn’t magically become cheap just because everything else is ridiculously expensive.

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