With the small year-over-year changes to smartphones, maybe it's time to ditch the yearly upgrade cycle. It would be better for consumers, the environment, and more.

While software updates and device support are a bigger problem in the Android ecosystem than on the iPhone, both could be better. If Samsung didn’t release dozens of different phone models every year, maybe it wouldn’t be spread so thin regarding product support.

And certainly too given the really hefty prices now, as well as the sheer number of different models that each brand produces (well OK that Samsung produces), it is just creating too much wastage.

Instead, we get Android or iOS updates that often do more harm than good and are rushed to devices, all while trying to keep up with the next big device, OS release, etc. And while Samsung is one of the best, offering four years of OS updates, maybe releasing new phones less frequently would help extend that further.

See https://www.reviewgeek.com/145957/please-stop-making-new-smartphones-every-year/

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