I’d argue more people need faster phones more than faster computers because more people need a phone more than a computer.

There’s some weird status thing with people preferring to be digital masochists unnecessarily. Like people who used to loudly tell everyone they don’t have a TV, good for you?

Getting a high end phone every year when you can trivially recoup most of that cost from flipping the old one lowers the bar.

Sure you can choose to use outdated hardware for years if you want to, but a lot of people would rather not.

The thing is, you gain nothing of value by that new phone every year. It is not masochism when you feel zero pain.

Also, but that is my personal pet peeve, new phones are too big for my hands. I had to buy new, it is smallest that was available and still uncomfortably big.

The smaller phones that were before were more comfortable and i could control them with one hand. So currently it is even loss that i had to buy new.