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LinuxWeather Glad I'm not alone ... I agree no need to replace if I like it and I do ... Its just a new paradigm shift for me to like a phone this long ... Makes me wonder if we've not started a new phase of smartphone development in that not much else out there is "awe-inspiring" and Samsung's 32 flavors of the same general design is garnishing deserved criticism.
It worries me a little because I can foresee carriers now not updating OS on devices as quickly, waiting for their self imposed two-year eoa/eol on devices ... And then now we will be forced to buy an almost identical device just to get newer firmware/OS if we don't want to go the rooted route.
It was bound to evolve to this ... And perhaps there are too many OEMS out there and someday it may just be Samsung and Google branded devices.
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Yeah, new phones a few years ago were one revolution in design, features, and performance after another. It was exciting to watch new devices come out & see what they could do that was new. Now it's well into evolutionary changes, and they're more & more ho-hum changes. I think the same is true for OS upgrades - we're seeing less frequent updates to Android, and each change seems more minor than the last. At some point, the motivation to upgrade frequently will wane, and people will actually hold onto the same phone for several years, because there just won't be motivation to upgrade. I'm sure there will be something else new & shiny to keep us shelling out our cash, though.
