Yeah, we are seeing people all up and the down the replacement pipeline move up a notch. I have a few friends who used to do the every year upgrade thing, and they are almost all on 2-3 year cycles now. While everyone else shifted to: “well, my current phone still works” cadence.
Comment on Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense
RyanDownyJr@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I stopped getting a new Samsung S# every year when they reduced their trade-in plan drastically. Went from like half the price of a new phone to just $200 if that. Between the and the standard S# slowly approaching $1k each year, I only upgrade every other year and even then I buy the previous model year. Genneraly costs under 800$ for both my wife and I to upgrade.
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Didn’t read article, but is every other year what we are considering a ‘long time?’ That’s what I consider a long time for some hard cheeses, but certainly not a phone.