I never got the appeal of bleeding edge smartphones. Then again I have boring life.
With computers, you have compute for working or gaming. Powerful phones are for media consumption? Is everyone really leading such interesting lives as they project on social media such that the latest phone features are a must have?
For some it stems from living through the early years of smartphones with single core CPUs, only enough RAM to keep one app open at a time, and interactions that were a complete choppy laggy mess.
Back then every new (non-budget) phone upgrade was a ridiculously big jump in performance. If you lived through that era it became a somewhat normal thing to do every couple of years assuming you had the means. I think many phone buyers today are still repeating that old behavior of thinking “OMG I can’t wait to use the next model that will be 5x better than this old one” but truly those days are long gone.
Now we look forward to only slightly (single digit percentage) increases in performance. And most new features get back ported to older models so you don’t even have a software reason to upgrade unless your model is no longer supported.
I never got the appeal of bleeding edge smartphones. Then again I have boring life.
With computers, you have compute for working or gaming. Powerful phones are for media consumption? Is everyone really leading such interesting lives as they project on social media such that the latest phone features are a must have?
For some it stems from living through the early years of smartphones with single core CPUs, only enough RAM to keep one app open at a time, and interactions that were a complete choppy laggy mess.
Back then every new (non-budget) phone upgrade was a ridiculously big jump in performance. If you lived through that era it became a somewhat normal thing to do every couple of years assuming you had the means. I think many phone buyers today are still repeating that old behavior of thinking “OMG I can’t wait to use the next model that will be 5x better than this old one” but truly those days are long gone.
Now we look forward to only slightly (single digit percentage) increases in performance. And most new features get back ported to older models so you don’t even have a software reason to upgrade unless your model is no longer supported.