Is it unethical to upgrade your iPhone?
How our addiction to new and shiny devices is doing more harm than good
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Considering Apple's proclivity for all their products consistently being glitchy and crashing, buying "new and improved" Apple products is literally like Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown.Is it unethical to upgrade your iPhone?
How our addiction to new and shiny devices is doing more harm than goodtheweek.com
Is it unethical to upgrade your iPhone?
How our addiction to new and shiny devices is doing more harm than goodtheweek.com
Luddism in the name of the environment is comingIs it unethical to upgrade your iPhone?
How our addiction to new and shiny devices is doing more harm than goodtheweek.com
The same people who will disagree with you here are the same people who cheer on CAFE standards and CARB regulations for cars...Planned obsolescence is an atrocious thing. The ‘current model’ of anything should stay relevant much much longer than a year or two.
Is it unethical to charge $1200 for a phone
Sure, but does the 11 do all those things so much better than what people already have? I'm willing to bet that a large percentage of people rushing to buy the 11 already have the 10.Not when you think about all it does.. its def not just a phone. Its basically a mini laptop with a badass digital camera attached. How much is a good camera by itslef? At least a few hundred. Then add all the other stuff it does - games, navigation, calls, etc.
That's like saying you're not paying $40k for a new car if you finance it. You are still paying for it, it just feels more manageable.So you never actually pay 1000 for the phone itself.
That is bleak - and that's only covering the production phase. I wonder what happens to all the smartphones that get traded in or thrown away, that's got to be equally botched."It could be argued that China’s dominance of the rare earth market is less about geology and far more about the country’s willingness to take an environmental hit that other nations shy away from."
From:
The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust
Hidden in an unknown corner of China is a toxic, nightmarish lake created by our thirst for smartphones, gadgets and green tech, discovers Tim Maughan.www.bbc.com