I’ve wondered for a while if we may be approaching a saturation point in the market - for smart phones at least.
The annual upgrades aren’t making ‘leaps and bounds’ improvements...and the quality is so high, the phones are lasting longer.
So why upgrade to a new one as often as before?
Agree. I got a Galaxy Note II in 2012, and am still using it. It texts, takes ok photos, phone, songs and audiobooks, google maps.
2012 was, IMHO, the breakover point for smart phones, and you can buy used ones now for a hundred to two hundred bucks. Phones prior to that became obsolete, cause they couldn't handle the new apps. That hasn't been the case since then.
At some point, there will be a new thing, but Tim Cook won't be the guy who oversees it. It will come from somewhere else. Cook is a supply chain guy, not an innovator.
This is Jobs talking about Xerox, but a lot of what he says is applicable to Apple since he passed: Steve Jobs on Xerox