How fun. They are essentially repeating the playbook of the 2000/2010s automotive industry: minimal true innovation, instead focusing on establishing a core foundation and subsequently differentiating their model lines solely through arbitrary feature variations. Wonder how that turned out.

Increasingly phones are being obsoleted by software and not the hardware which is still technically capable of running n+7 yearly OS. 10 years would be a good target for software support.

I’m happy to pay more for services if it means longer device lifetimes