DNA wrote
no one yet explained to me why you upgrade phones every couple months?
anyway the point of what i said isn't because i need a phone with pc like performance or i am looking forward to that. the point is that the hardware upgrades between newly released phones doesn't explain in anyway their higher prices.. its like someone buys a 200$ Gtx760 and couple months later he upgrades to a 700$ Gtx 760ti where is the logic in that, you are paying 800$ for a phone that should only cost 50$ more of the previous model. you get a very small increase in specs while paying huge amount of money for it.. M8,M9 ; S4,S5 ; Z1,Z3 ; G2,G3 all are the same
I agree, which is why I always upgrade after several generations. I've owned two computers in the last 9 years (which includes two GPUs). I've always played my games on the highest graphics and used my PC with the fastest speed, yet I don't buy new parts every six months or so.
I generally have the same attitude with phones, however it's a little different. A smartphone seems not to last as long as a computer in terms of speed/graphics, and smartphones are always coming out with new features (finger sensor, improved cameras, fast charging, etc.) that people are compelled to upgrade to receive.
The last "big" thing about computers was the SSD/6/8-core CPUs. Of course there were many other changes in terms of motherboards and GPUs, but those changes were small. You could install an SSD/new GPU/CPU on an old computer, but you can't install a new camera or finger sensor on your old smartphone. In this way, phones do have shorter lifespans on average. But not 6-months/1-year short! I agree with you there.