> I will get a new phone when mine dies because (A) I need a phone and (B) the phone I have isn't being made anymore.
But you'll still have a pretty wide range of choices; last I checked, not every phone available was a smartphone, let alone an iPhone. Granted, the exact model you had before won't be there, but that's true of just about anything. My car is a 2002 model; I'm going to have to get a new one pretty soon, and I certainly won't be able to buy the same model. But I'll still have a pretty wide range of choices; it's not as though I'll either have to buy a luxury model or go without.
> If you do not keep buying new stuff, you don't stagnate, you regress.
Well, of course; stuff wears out and dies, so you have to get new stuff, and the new stuff won't be the same as the stuff you used to have, because stuff is always changing. Everything wears out eventually; that's just a fact of life. But nobody is forcing you to get the fanciest phone available, or the fanciest anything else.
But you'll still have a pretty wide range of choices; last I checked, not every phone available was a smartphone, let alone an iPhone. Granted, the exact model you had before won't be there, but that's true of just about anything. My car is a 2002 model; I'm going to have to get a new one pretty soon, and I certainly won't be able to buy the same model. But I'll still have a pretty wide range of choices; it's not as though I'll either have to buy a luxury model or go without.
> If you do not keep buying new stuff, you don't stagnate, you regress.
Well, of course; stuff wears out and dies, so you have to get new stuff, and the new stuff won't be the same as the stuff you used to have, because stuff is always changing. Everything wears out eventually; that's just a fact of life. But nobody is forcing you to get the fanciest phone available, or the fanciest anything else.