5.3 Billion how many of you are guilty
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Yeah I get a new iPhone every year or two.
I buy the new one cash and sell my old one. The sim deal is cheap as chips. It works out a lot cheaper this way.
But yes, I could probably keep my phones a lot longer
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My first phone cost me £1575 in 1986. I still have it plus about 20 more!
Inherit them from family, have had 3 in 15 or do years. Didn't the tech giants admit they built in obsolescence?
Certainly not.
Current phone was purchased October 2021, over 3 years ago.
I never pay for phones monthly either, just buy a new one when required.
Previous one was only replaced due to a fault occurring where it would still charge but would not connect to any other devices via USB.
I've had the same phone for the past 8 years.
I only throw things away (to recycling facilities) when they don't work anymore.
I must be lucky because the shortest I kept a phone was 6 years, then I accidentally dropped it in water and it died.
I only throw things away (to recycling facilities) when they don't work anymore.
I must be lucky because the shortest I kept a phone was 6 years, then I accidentally dropped it in water and it died.
Apple admitted they built in battery charge problem
I only found out the other day led tvs have something that stops them working after a certain amount of time
That doesn’t surprise me. About 20 years ago, I bought a couple of Flatscreen Dell PC monitors. They lasted about 3 or 4 years and within a week, they both went pop and bang and stopped working. I've always suspected they were programmed to do that.
on a similar note about 20 or so years ago when freeveiw recorders came about they would last perhaps 3-5 years then play up badly so unusable ---but after going through several perhaps 6 with 2x2 in 2 different locations so 4 in use as you need one to build up content to watch and when the one you are using for main watching becomes unwatchable you do a disc clean and a factory reset and swap use to the other one an build up veiwing content on the now cleaned one
now eventually after perhaps 5 years they would just fully fail buuuuuttt because i like to recycle off the perhaps 5 in total that where 100% failures after sitting unplugged for perhaps 3-5 years would iff plugged back in and retuned most would carry back on as iff nothing had happened for between 6 weeks to a couple off years suggesting programming input not available anymore to stop operation or corrupt input taking time to stop the machine working
but fully just my thoughts rather than 100% verified
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