> This argument is a red herring. People like new things. People like things that work all the time without modification. Almost no one actually wants a phone or computer that lasts twice as long but is bulky and requires maintenance.

I don't know about you, but I don't feel like throwing $1000 once a year to have latest and greatest. I did went through several phones but that's only because they became unusable with time as applications required more and more resources.

We eventually got phones that are powerful enough to last for longer and even the mid range phones are no longer crappy.

This is why the revenue of companies producing phones dropped recently. Most people don't want to change their device that often.