Apple seems to be moving away from trying to sell more iphones and instead in to getting iphone users to buy more kinds of things. You now have AirPods, the Apple Watch, and a million other things which each can last quite a while but add up to what would have been a new phone every year.

Write, buy, sell more software and art!

Agreed, we need to change the mindset of being unwilling to pay $5 for an app while spending $1000 on a new phone every 2 years

> Yes, the economy will take a hit.

Just print money until you make it.

A phone every 3 years is barely a blip in the "disposable stuff" department

They uses rare metals.

They use an utterly insignificant amount compared to an EV though...

So if we have 7.2 millions PEVs (all-electric + hybrid)[0] how does that compare to the 4.8 billion phone users (smart + feature)[1]? If we assume only 1 phone per person (and ignore how many are in landfills) that's 667 phones per electric vehicle. I wonder how that compares in terms of rare earth metal usage.

The lifecycle of a vehicle is probably ~2-20 times that of a phone so let's say a single magnitude. That gives us 6600 phones per vehicle lifetime. Granted - the smartphone market will stay within a magnitude (not everyone can be an HK taxi driver with 7 phones)

Now global EV adoption will increase by ~3 magnitudes by the time the market saturates and there might be a magnitude separating phone count from EVs.

[0] https://evstatistics.com/2020/06/global-electric-vehicle-sto...

[1] https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/how-many-phones-are-in-the-w...