Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
29 months
squeezing as much life out of your device as possible
Dude, my average phone age is 7 years. I’m now on my 3rd since smartphones exist.
This. I’m just upgrading my galaxy s9 that was released in feb 2018. Although many parts of it are starting to die (e.g. screen burn in, a dew cracks), it’s only because my service provider is killing it off because it doesn’t support VOLTE (and I refuse to use the default Samsung OS).
Upgrading to a fairphone. You better believe that’s gonna last another 7 years.
Right? My current one is from 2019 and I don’t see a reason to buy a new one.
Mine’s lower, due to having one gotten stolen and another one crushed. My current one is five years old.
I’d be using an S8 if I could
still fucking angry i can’t use a Sony xzc2 in the US since 3G shutdown (it HAS LTE capability and network operators refuse to support it)
I have no idea.
Technically I’m here because I replace phones every 2-3 years, but it’s so I can give my teens good phones. I can’t afford to replace four phones at once so this lets me replace two. We keep phones in the family, in use, for a much more reasonable 5-6 years
I'm only somewhat worse since early 2000s Windows phones were kinda trash and I broke my first iPhone. But after that, I run them until they start having trouble doing common things. I went from an iPhone 6 to a Pixel 6 which I still am using fine.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yank here. I dunno what these fucks are complaining about. All my phones have either been cheap, or refurbished secondhand. Hell, I even learned how to fix my own so I could make them last as long as possible. And when the OS gets too slow, I start throwing out old apps like I’m bailing a leaky ship. My average phone’s lifetime is nearly five years.
You know what this smells like? Smells like rich people complaining about poor people being pragmatic and sensible. “Decreasing productivity by 1/3 of a percentage point.” Spoiled little prince can eat my entire ass.