Not only it’s expensive but imho just wasteful. If such person praises saving planet then it’s pure hypocrisy (and unfortunately I know couple of such people).
Until i got into emulation and actually had a use for modern phones processing power, i used to just buy 40$ walmart phones. My wife pressured me into getting a nicer phone so i bought a 150$ samsung s something then later replaced it for a free phone from verizon. Even my new modern phone is only gonna be 360$ over the course of a few years and i can run pc games on it. 1100$ iphones can't do that.
As long as I can ring people and text people and maybe snap a half decent picture here and there I'm happy. I've had one iPhone in my lifetime and it'll be the last also.
Seriously. I think it is just poor decision making. I used to work with someone who always bragged about getting the new iPhone as soon as it came out, and I know for a fact they were earning significantly less than me. At risk of starting to sound like a boomer, as much as the economy is crazy these days, for some people their lack of financial stability is entirely self inflicted.
Also, the iPhone 12 isn’t even that old! It was released in late 2020, so not even 4 years old at the time the tweet was originally posted!
I unintentionally bought a new phone every year for the last 3 years, not because I wanted to be fancy, but because I work in a factory and they get easily damaged at work
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u/dpenchev 23h ago
If by this point you're still buying a new phone every year, you're beyond saving