This just means they made good enough products. People save some money, can use that money to buy something else they need, maybe just not from the same company. It saves the planet a little bit.
its in response to planned obsolescence.
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blaming the consumer again?
Instead of the billion/trillionaires that are hoarding wealth that they’ll NEVER be able to spend?
how fucking sad is it that there are people sleeping on the street, worried about their next meal will come from, meanwhile gaben has a billion$ worth of megayachts
We need to keep spending money, so that billionaires continue spending on mega yachts, so that mega yacht companies do not start firing their work force due to lack of sales
Why attack steam? Why not any other billionair? Or is epic paying you
There is no such thing as a good billionaire.
why not gaben? He gets a pass for some reason, so why not attack him. Why did you ask why i attacked him and not some other billionaire? is gaben paying you?
Capitalism is a cult. Must produce for the sake of production. Must consume for the sake of consumption.
If no need for something exists, it must be created. Solutions in search of problems.
Better to produce something and throw it away than to miss out on a sale, or heaven forbid give it away.
It’s funny how thrift and frugality will ruin the economy for everyone but gambling with other people’s homes and retirement funds is good business sense.
Money hoarding by billionaires is literally destroying the entire world
'Everyone disliked that."
I have a Samsung S23, and it is going to be the first time my phone WON’T either be destroyed or stolen before it is fully paid off. I won’t be getting another phone until something like Cape phone is fully functional in my area and I can have a GrapheneOS compatiable device. I will not be allowing any more bullshit be spying on me more than I need to (which ideally should be zero, but that is basically impossible).
Using an 11 year old blackberry converted to android. Kiss my ass with that phone treadmill.
Nah, the 12 dead laptops undef my bed I use for hardware salvage and experiments are device hoarding. The multiple disassembled game consoles in my closet is device hoarding. None of it is sorted, the retro stuff isn’t sorted, the new stuff isn’t sorted.
I’m device hoarding. The average consumer is absolutely not.
My pallet of used office PCs I got for $200 but have barely handed off any is device hoarding, keeping your phone for 2-4 years before upgrading is just being financially prudent
Godspeed, you future museum contributor!
The hope is to eventually open a repair cafe/lounge with the
carcassesdisassembled dead retro units as display piecesThe MSP I briefly worked at kept a bunch of notable obsolete computers in the main entry way as a kind of “museum” but they didn’t really have the vision to make it look like actual displays, so it kinda almost looks like it’s warm storage for hardware that could be pressed into service any day now
My sibling in Aiyuna, that is a museum with extra steps <3
If you make it there and happen to recall this interaction, I would be glad to hear of it!
In a heartbeat, friend!
Gotta throw out all the old pc’s. We need win11 in our lives ❤
I went to Linux out of techie obstinance, but looking at the insane number of “Backup to OneDrive”, “Ask Copilot” poison-patterns Windows is constantly adding to 11, I’m really starting to consider whether to suggest Mint to my parents.
I want them to have an experience as close as possible to Windows as they’re used to it - and that may not come from Windows anymore.
yup. Microshaft sucks big fat Oprah tiddies. Throw out a perfectly fine piece of hardware? Nah, Linux!
Hoard cool cars in a secret garage never to see the light of day ever again? Collecting.
Keep your phone for 5 years until you’re forced to upgrade? Hoarding.
Rough housing with your cousins at Thanksgiving? Horsing.
Having hobo sex in a brand new Prius? Soup kitchen.
Weren’t these the same people saying that we should stop buying new iPhones and avocado toast?
i refuse to upgrade, because newer phones are objectively a worse experience than older ones. They keep removing features in the name of “innovation” while putting more stuff in there that the market is actively telling them they don’t want.
They keep removing features in the name of “innovation” while putting more stuff in there that the market is actively telling them they don’t want.
I always put off buying a new phone for this exact reason. It feels like every iteration further strips users of the ability to remove telemetry, AI bullshit, or bloatware. I’m not paying out hundreds of dollars for a dedicated advertisement displayer that spies on me.
I miss the 90s early 2000s, where every 2 years the new products were much better, not only specs wise but categorically so. and a new phone did not cost a month of rent.
I have a 2020’s phone, and besides battery life being weaker now. I see absolutely no reason to upgrade for a marginal spec bump.
When was the last time a new feature was added? like something that would make want to have it? they are afraid of any risk and so there is absolutely no innovation. the closest thing to any risk they took is when they removed the headphone jack to sell 300$ headphones.
The whole industry is being enshitified.
Spec bumps are pretty irrelevant now anyways. Phones are currently in the land of diminishing returns for performance. They’ve been ‘fast enough’ for some time now, and the only thing that breaks them is software, not hardware. Newer hardware is marginally more efficient, so that’s the only real world benefit.
I miss the old days of android where they were trying all manner of wild ideas. I want variety where one company has an eink screen protector. Put a laser pointer on a phone because… Because. Where are the projector phones? Maybe some crazy transformer phone with modules that all clip together to turn into a robot. Sure, they never sold well, but they were cool to see.
You might even change the phone because of the battery and find out that your new device has an absolute power hog of a screen with no battery upgrade to match and your battery life is even worse now
Hey now, they saved half a millimeter of thickness with that smaller battery. You should be thanking them.
I love my flip open smartphone. That was a new feature worth paying for. It’s so small in my pocket.
Or if you go for the “full-size”, a tablet that folds into a standard phone size.
Foldable are nice either direction you want to go.
