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I think if I had the money to burn, as much as there's distaste for the practice, I probably WOULD replace my phone frequently, or maybe at least as often as it takes my fancy or I hear about one that sounds cool. It's nice having cool new shit. But, I've never had that kind of money to burn and the reality is there's something weirdly idiosyncratic and personal to what makes a 'good' phone nowadays when there's so little to separate them and they're all pretty much amazing magical sci-fi devices so it's always going to be 4 years minimum. Typically what ends up killing the marriage is that I've accidentally managed to smash the poor thing somehow, that's even when I've actually ended up hating the thing. I'm just never going to waste the thing I paid for even when it turned out to be a bad buy.