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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Is it unethical to upgrade your iPhone?
- Thread starter casa_mugrienta
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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
I just upgraded and my phone is running way better but i was running like iOS from 2015. same old 6s
"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:
www.bbc.com
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
Is it unethical to upgrade your iPhone?
How our addiction to new and shiny devices is doing more harm than goodtheweek.com
Posted from my iPhone X
I get my wife's castoff phones when she upgrades. She has the x now and gave me her old 7. What a world of difference in speed and space.
Planned obsolescence is an atrocious thing. The ‘current model’ of anything should stay relevant much much longer than a year or two.
Apple is not your friend. I say this while carrying an iPhone. And I generally carry the same model for 3-4 years, whether that be fix No the one I have or buying a new / same model.
Apple is not your friend. I say this while carrying an iPhone. And I generally carry the same model for 3-4 years, whether that be fix No the one I have or buying a new / same model.
Some fierce virtue signaling going in this thread.
If you don't have the need for the features that iPhone offers, don't fvcking buy one.
If you don't have the need for the features that iPhone offers, don't fvcking buy one.
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...
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.
i have no problem paying a grand for something I use all day every day.(weather I use it all day is a good or bad thing is another topic) Not to mention with todays plans youre basically paying 30 bucks a month on a lease to own program. So you never actually pay 1000 for the phone itself.
I haven't had a cell phone in 7 years.
People say, what if your girl friend needs to call you?
I say, Exactly!
People say, what if your girl friend needs to call you?
I say, Exactly!
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.
Plus you cannot compare a camera phone to a proper camera. Yes it works for day to day photos, but without a proper zoom, there are lots of scenarios such as wildlife photography where it simply does not work. Cameras are way cheaper nowadays, specifically because of phones.
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.
I'm on a refurbished s6 because they didn't sell new s6's anymore
and I liked my previous phone (bike accident)
I have a big stupid case for it and, I hesitate to say out loud, I have
managed to NOT break it.
my kid keeps telling me he wants an upgrade from his shitty bottom
tier samsung noname, but he still hasn't been able to articulate why
I should upgrade him...to an iphone no less.
WTF is with all this backwards pageantry?
and I liked my previous phone (bike accident)
I have a big stupid case for it and, I hesitate to say out loud, I have
managed to NOT break it.
my kid keeps telling me he wants an upgrade from his shitty bottom
tier samsung noname, but he still hasn't been able to articulate why
I should upgrade him...to an iphone no less.
WTF is with all this backwards pageantry?
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.
I'm still on an iPhone 5, just replaced the home button and the screen, hope to keep that thing going for a while.
Thrifty Scottish heritage bastard, OUT!