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GreenEyedLefty

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50. I'm from the D!

Reply to marmar (Reply #14)

Wed May 4, 2016, 02:24 PM

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Are Smartphones Doomed to the Same Fate as Personal Computers? [View all] marmar May 2016 OP

Good, maybe they'll stop charging $500 for a new phone. auntpurl May 2016 #1

The only reason they cost $500 is because they are made overseas with cheap labor. LiberalFighter May 2016 #19

Oh no, that is absurd. Jackie Wilson Said May 2016 #26

Broken clocks are right twice a day. cleanhippie May 2016 #62

like n/t okieinpain May 2016 #63

I am currently writing product descriptions for cellphone... ScreamingMeemie May 2016 #38

Well duh, FoxNewsSucks May 2016 #2

There is one thing you are not accounting for GummyBearz May 2016 #9

When all they offer in the new version is a slightly better camera, moving the headphone port to the hughee99 May 2016 #34

Yes GummyBearz May 2016 #36

wifi changes the equation Mosby May 2016 #56

Not unless they get rid of data caps. RichVRichV May 2016 #39

Data caps have been slowly improving GummyBearz May 2016 #41

2GBs is a 1.5 hour movie download. Nice to get but hardly a deal breaker. n/t RichVRichV May 2016 #49

The next big thing will be a combined device... apnu May 2016 #17

This is the right answer tkmorris May 2016 #45

Given how lucrative the "phablet" market is for phones apnu May 2016 #48

$100 tab & a cell phone. That's about it for me... Eleanors38 May 2016 #60

Bingo! brush May 2016 #54

And so it goes . . . JustAnotherGen May 2016 #3

The idea of upgrading a perfectly funtional edhopper May 2016 #4

Planned obsolescence, it's been working for the automobile industry for decades tularetom May 2016 #6

Technology does not work that way randr May 2016 #10

Which are unnecesarry for most people edhopper May 2016 #24

Most people use their phones for more than that. FLPanhandle May 2016 #30

And all of those work as well edhopper May 2016 #32

They reached that point a while back. RichVRichV May 2016 #44

true that edhopper May 2016 #53

I just jumped from an s4 to an s7 Fuddnik May 2016 #58

Uh, Tom???? ProfessorGAC May 2016 #18

How true randr May 2016 #51

Nope, how long did a 1987 Chevy Cavalier last? Lucky to get 90k out of it.. snooper2 May 2016 #20

that is a lot of miles for a young car hfojvt May 2016 #40

Dont bjuy a Toshiba PC then... Jackie Wilson Said May 2016 #27

I have had very good results from Dell edhopper May 2016 #29

I was gonna go Apple but I use connectify, and they dont have one for Apple Jackie Wilson Said May 2016 #33

I won't diss Apple edhopper May 2016 #55

Smartphones have come a long way but seem to have peaked in performance/abilities FLPanhandle May 2016 #5

Until 5G is rolled out GummyBearz May 2016 #11

That will be worth upgrading for! FLPanhandle May 2016 #15

that was my old joke hfojvt May 2016 #42

No doubt there will be a 6G GummyBearz May 2016 #47

They'd have done better to bring out updates more slowly. LisaM May 2016 #7

I always keep my previous phone in case something like that were to happen. frylock May 2016 #35

It was my first smartphone. I did (do) still have my old flipphone LisaM May 2016 #43

I had my old non-texting cell phone for 10 years before the battery would no longer hold a charge. CrispyQ May 2016 #8

I just upgraded to the Galaxy S7 gollygee May 2016 #12

+1000 n/t JustAnotherGen May 2016 #21

My Galaxy S3 stopped being reliable last October MurrayDelph May 2016 #23

Do you think the advances in technology will come to a halt? randr May 2016 #13

Just gotta say, I love all the Olde English D's in this thread.... marmar May 2016 #14

I'm from the D! GreenEyedLefty May 2016 #50

by the time the tower improvements to make faster network finally reach where i live dembotoz May 2016 #16

When they stop charging astronomical prices for new phones, get back to me. Initech May 2016 #22

soon to be replaced w/the SmartAnalPlug with spinal column interface Bucky May 2016 #25

Upgrading the dumb anal plug... chknltl May 2016 #31

I'm not convinced that personal computers have gone (or are going) extinct Orrex May 2016 #28

I just bought a small PC, and wish it was smaller... The boxes are unnecessarily huge to underahedgerow May 2016 #52

I think they'll be around for a good while, but as the article states... Lizzie Poppet May 2016 #37

Its called market saturation, it happens with pretty much every durable consumer good... Humanist_Activist May 2016 #46

expensive overpriced phones have peaked. Going forward it will not be apple seeing growth. Egnever May 2016 #57

Yep. nt bemildred May 2016 #59

Eventually once they offload the audio/visual and sensors into wearables MowCowWhoHow III May 2016 #61