I dont know if I have tunnel vision with my usage of smartphones but what is the point of buying a new piece of tech every year?
All I ever see people use it for is as a Facebook machine, reading PDFs, streaming music and virtually nothing else. I always see that they'll advertise new devices as having some epic graphical chip and being able to run fortnite but honestly who the fuck plays games on their phone that require anything beyond being able to run fucking flappy bird?
It just doesn't really make sense, none of the features that they seem to come up with really do much for me as a consumer, so why the fuck should I shell out $500 for a phone that performs virtually the same as my iPhone 5s?
The only speedups I'm gonna get are going to be slight split second increases in how fast my device switches between tasks, literally nothing else.
More ram and better CPU for AI processing of personal assistants and computer vision placed in phones.
Blake Hall
To further elaborate on my point, the only features I've seen come out this year that are revolutionary/useful were the AR features the were added to Android Pie, namely the one where you could use your camera on GMaps and it actually tells you the ratings and shit of the places on the map. That and the measuring tool that iOS 12 added. Literally nothing else. And while I think that those tools ARE cool and useful, it still doesn't make the $600-1500 markup worth it to get a new device to use those features when you can literally just do well with traditional measuring tools and normal GPS and GMaps capability. It just doesn't make any sense.
Why should I pay some company that slapped some mediocre features and improvements onto a device and marked it up an extra $200 when the markup isn't doing anything for the sweatshop slaves that make this useless shit
Brandon Carter
But why would I need more RAM if all I'm doing is streaming music and adding indians to group chats on facebook messenger? It works just fine on my 5 year old device, why bother?
Ian Wright
The games part is IMHO particularly asinine as we have many wonderful Android controllers but all they ever make are more jackass touchscreen games! I mean the idea of a do all device is great as I can only carry so much shit in my pants at once and much of that space is occupied by my big hairy gonads, so multitasking shit is great. That is it's great until you realize even on your amazing pocket computer with state of the art pocket sized CPU GPU and other assorted bullshit + awesome controller, somehow all we get is god-damned angry birds and Candy crush or whatever the new dumbass barely a game fad is.
Well if there are no games what else? Perhaps a badass photo editor like Photoshop or even gimp? Fuck no and fuck you! Perhaps some awesome video editing software? Once again lol eat a dick! Hell even mobile VR (presumably the only use of these constantly upgrading specs) is still a big ol bucket of shit. I'll be blunt, I own a Moto z 2 and unless I get something ground breakingly awesome (like an actual fucking keyboard and not that portrait blackberry wankery) I see absolutely no reason to upgrade ever at all. If the battery goes to shit I'll just slap another battery pack mod on it and call it fixed.
Jaxon Martinez
In the case of Android, you should upgrade once you are no longer receiving OS updates and cannot manually install something like LineageOS yourself. Basically just get a cheap Android One phone like the Xiaomi Mi A2.
Ian Jones
>trusting big corp intentions >buying new phone every year to be part of the cool people >become even fatter and lazier because big corp buddy is doing everything for you >embracing the orwellian nightmare de/g/enerate
Jackson Myers
You can get a 1 year old Oneplus 5 with 8 GB Ram for like 500 USD. Do you need more Ram?
Samuel Peterson
I feel you man, I'm still using my 2015 phone cause it does everything I want from it. Maybe I'd like a better camera but that's about it.
