Comment on Vodafone Finds Brits Keep Mobile Phones for 4 Years Instead of 2
xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Devices are prohibitively expensive these days. The marginal gains from improved tech is also not used to benefit the end user. Devices are not working for the one that pays for it. If only they would release a flagship device with unlocked boot loader, open drivers and a pledge to support it for 10 years. I would buy that. Otherwise I see no need to upgrade.
Alto@kbin.social 10 months ago
It's less that the improvements are marginal (modern flagships are significantly more powerful than 4 years ago for example), it's just that 90% of people have absolutely no use for most of that increased power. The most intensive thing most people do on their phone is watch media.
nomadjoanne@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I know a lot of young men who, if they have money, just have to have those extra gigaflops and that 4k 90hz phone screen.
Then 95% of the time they browse the web and use it for twitter, etc… 🙄