01-29-2018, 05:36 PM
(01-29-2018, 05:31 PM)D_Eclipse9916 Wrote: I can't tell if I am getting too old or Smartphone technology has seen the turnover to incremental vs revolutionary but I have to beleive its the latter since phone sales are on a slump overall.
The wife and I both have the Iphone 7 we upgraded to 2.5 years ago when they did the "bring in your iphone 6 and we will give you $600 credit towards a new phone". AKA free phone if you ignore taxes. I started searching once ours hit 2 years but even the BOGO free deal didn't entice us enough to switch to a newer phone. Both our batteries seem to suffer pretty hard from battery degradation but everywhere we go we aren't far from a wall charger or car charger. Once it hits below 3 hours of life it'll be time.
The market hasn't been disrupted in quite some time. Aside from blatant consumerism, the only real reason I see people upgrade is because their battery went to shit. People like to talk about screens and features and specs, but most of it's vanity. That's true if it's iphone or android. This is pure correlation/speculation, but I think the entire market plateaued when Jobs died.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth