They won’t get the message unless people stop buying. If they make new things every year, and people actually buy them and turn them into the richest company on the planet, then they’ve got a strategy that works great for them. Stop buying things just because they exist. The companies suck and the people support them.
Yeah, I can’t blame people for engrained/culturally accepted consuming habits. That said, I find conversations around trade-in value of iPhones/Pixels/Watches to be so difficult. Like, do you really think you’re coming out ahead of Apple or Google on these deals? Just another drug in the ante.
I agree that system change is needed and all blame cannot be laid on individuals. These companies do pour billions into exploiting everything they can about human psychology.
And yet their cadence of pushing out new phones every year to replace old ones hasn’t changed.
They won’t get the message unless people stop buying. If they make new things every year, and people actually buy them and turn them into the richest company on the planet, then they’ve got a strategy that works great for them. Stop buying things just because they exist. The companies suck and the people support them.
Apple is always pushing iOS updates that eventually make older hardware crawl to a halt.
Would be nice if they back ported security fixes, but instead they’re just like fuck it, here’s a whole new iOS your old phone can’t really run.
That’s not even close to true. I’m on a six year old iPhone with the latest version of iOS and it works amazingly.
Yeah, I can’t blame people for engrained/culturally accepted consuming habits. That said, I find conversations around trade-in value of iPhones/Pixels/Watches to be so difficult. Like, do you really think you’re coming out ahead of Apple or Google on these deals? Just another drug in the ante.
I agree that system change is needed and all blame cannot be laid on individuals. These companies do pour billions into exploiting everything they can about human psychology.