Tgis is all tag wars. Get the best sounding name, gain reputation and become the key ng even though you're just a burger King, people will buy, and buy and buy aimlessly with no other reason but getting the newest product even though they don't require it.
Another connected issue raised by this thread is, what if people bought what's good, cheap and for their needs?
Why do people spend too much money on something they really don't need, heck half the people with high end phones don't really use them. They just use them as communication and media devices in the simplest way of it.
This you can do with a 3 year old low end phone.
This dumb consumption method just harms the environment, the economy and mostly the consumer.
Here is why:
Environment:
People replace phones rapidly, once in half a year, 1 year or even 3 years without them really needing to replace it.
The old phone gets dumped or given to someone else, either way it creates more and more electronic waste.
Economy: The money goes to phone production companies and the rest in this echo system.
Think of money as energy, and energy has a limit to.
Now take in mind that our economy runs on debt.
People borrow energy and give that energy away to the phone industry, think of how many people taking loans to buy a new phone (36 month payment plans and actual loans), think of how many people carry an expensive smartphone in their pocket and can't end the month.
Now think of all that energy wasted on phones given to a study of "free/green energy" I bet we could've reached something with all that money invested on this matter (for example).
The consumer:
The majority of consumers are dumb when it comes to purchasing a new phone (or anything else for that matter).
The producers are well aware of that fact and instead of producing 1 strong and well developed newer smartphone tgey produce a newer phone which is better in a fraction compared to the predecessor. And people just jump on it and buy it.
Take Galaxy S series for example. If you had the previous phone it didn't matter to buy the new one, the only major difference was the one after the new one. e.g upgrading from s2 to s3 didn't yield that much difference, and a few months later s4 popped in the market.
Even the tick tock production is corrupted to the bone (iPhone 5 iPhone 5s).
So all in all consumers just ask to get it from behind bending on four in the phone store. (and liking it)
What's your thoughts on this? (btw I wrote something similar on the WP centeral forums and got flamed so I hope I don't offend anyone and if I do, then shut up)
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