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Even five years is shockingly low for me given how long we used to have the same stuff when I was a kid, like TVs and kitchen stuff. I still have the same knife from my first apartment (1996) and even then that knife was a decade old because it was a hand-me-down. But as soon as software gets involved everything suddenly gets super obsolescent ๐ญ
@Xylight @rant
Did you really just compare a smartphone to a knife?
And to TVs, cars, record players, speakers, lamps, microwave ovens
@PraiseTheSoup @rant
@PraiseTheSoup @Sandra They are (should be) just tools to do a job. Having said that I went to the Edinburgh Festival with some of my family this year, and noticed that they could, for example, book tickets for a show much faster than I could on my nearly seven year old phone. When not seeing it in comparison with others, though, I do not usually think of mine as slow.
The worry with older phones is the lack of security updates. One of the bugs in market capitalism is that supporting older devices eats into the profit. Unlike the old days where there were third-party TV repair shops.
@john @PraiseTheSoup
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@Sandra @PraiseTheSoup @rant An excellent point - although most of the security bugs seem to be in the bits which have been added to 'add value' and which I try to avoid.