Die Amerikaner behalten ihre Geräte länger als je zuvor und das kostet die Wirtschaft
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html
Die Amerikaner behalten ihre Geräte länger als je zuvor und das kostet die Wirtschaft
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html
26 Kommentare
Wait, are we seeing how great capitalism is?
How dare you peasants harm the economy. Buy more phones now!
Fuck the environment. Why arent americans buying the new device every year? Won’t they think of the fucking shareholders, selfish assholes.
Millennial RUINED the housing market.
If only their AI could buy products, then their dystopian nightmare would be complete ….
My heart bleeds for them, boo hoo
Well Mr MBA, it’s almost as if you have mass layoffs and replace people with ai they tend to stop spending. Who could have thought that? Not anyone capable of thinking beyond the next quarter…
The consumer economy is a dead end. It degrades the natural ecological environment to the point of threatening the survival of our species. Economists in their vainglory have outsourced the problem in their grubby equations and hiding in air-conditioned environments they can continue to ignore it until the lights go out.
Dam that trickle down economics
The only reason I replaced my pixel 7 is because I accidentally destroyed the thing while at work. I really liked that phone. I hadn’t intended on replacing it either sadly.
Did they ever think the cost is the driving factor here?
If you want people to upgrade maybe do more than simply putting a new chip in and acting like it’s revolutionary.
For this headline to exist and make sense, something MUST be wrong with our economic model.
Maybe its because the lower end consumer is getting poorer every day and the middle class is being hollowed out?
Thats fine if ur in clothes retail, the rich will buy loads of clothes, but it doesnt matter how rich you are youre not buying 10 phones
Imagine if we structured society to improve the lives of people, not simply drive the economy
Oh it’s the mythical economy again. How hard is it to write a headline about actual Americans and not some made up nonsense that is simply a proxy for the billionaire class.
‚Costing the economy‘ is a nonsense phrase. It was overvalued.
„The average American now holds onto their smartphone for 29 months.“
THAT’S the „longer than ever“ they’re worried about?? I’d consider that a really short span of time to own one phone. I try to get 3-4 years out of mine, and either OS update support, battery life, or storage needs tend to determine my upgrade timeline.
They’re wondering why people hang onto phones for longer – when some of them cost more than laptops? Hmmm …
I upgraded from Galaxy S20 FE to S24+. The difference in day to day use is staggeringly small. Unless there is a major breakthrough I am keeping this one until like 2030.
Ah, its the latest „here is how the Millennials / Gen-Z are harming the economy.“
The reasoning here is very simple. For most consumer technology hardware, recent advances have been extremely incremental. Aside from battery performance – which is manageable if you are close to a charging point most of the day – the basic technology and its performance are almost no different to the technology released 5 years ago.
I have an iPhone 12, and for everything I need it for it works very well with no issues. Gone are the days where people spent £600 on a new phone every year because the technological innovation was worth it. Spending that much each year for a marginally better camera and AI built in? Screw that.
This is a fun way to reframe the fact that people don’t have any fucking money.
This sounds like the fallacy of the broken window.
Well technology isn’t moving like 08 to 12 at the moment. The difference between the phones from them 4 years is crazy. It went from could play a snail 8 bit looking game to crazy birds and access all the internet, watch videos ect the difference was night and day.then lets talk about prices. 1000/2000 for a new phone !hundreds for a decent used one!who the heck pays 1k for a tv or any other „large purchase to buy a new one a year or 2 later..but i stand by if the release some mind blowing changes people might go get a new phone..until then i will be holding this one til it gives out on me and forces my hand damn it!
conservation helps economies that aren’t propped up artificially by exploitation.
My iPhone 11 will die when I let it die
The 1% are holding onto more money for longer than ever and it’s costing the economy*
Oh no, the economy and those poor poor billionaires. Won’t someone please think of them. Elon needs to feed Grok the hearts of children with different skin color than him. Not because he has to, but because he enjoys it.