Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy

DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That comes out to $1.37 a day. I definitely think hardware should last way longer than that, and I even have computers running at my house that are over 12 years old, but $1.37 a day for something that most people use as much as their phone is not a bad deal. In this economy, that’s like half of a gas station soft drink, or like 10 miles worth of gas.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah it took me a gpfew years to hop on the smartphone bandwagon because they seemed so expensive for something as unnecessary as a phone. Then I did the same math, considered how much I actually use it, even just for insipid games. The cost per use or per minute use, or for functionality is pretty reasonable, especially as phones get more capable.

    Ironically, it’s my computer that fails that math, especially as phones take over more functionality we used to need computers for

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