I can't stand people who get the latest kit because they want to be "cool". I take a functional attitude to buying things, and unless there's a compelling reason for me to upgrade them (more pretty graphics, a new OS that my hardware cannot run, my old stuff is breaking), I don't see the point of chasing the latest and greatest. I guess we have early adopters to thank for driving innovation in a way, however I'm sure there's a lot of people out there with iPhone 3s who queued up for iPhone 4s purely because it is a status symbol.

Out and out materialism is a delusion of modern society.