If newer is what there is, you can either get on and learn it, or spend your time complaining!

Personally, I find that people complaining about cellphones needing charge, cellphones needing replacement and poor cellphone reception have a point. You didn't have that with landlines.

Back in the day, one would carry coins and use a phone box when needed. Nowadays everyone gets to carry a cellphone and pay 40 dollars minimum every month for the privilege. Cellphones are a regression, and we haven't even talked about the privacy aspect.

There's legitimate concerns around having to use your phone for everything, given how easy it makes for corporations and governments to track you, and how you're locked into a continuous upgrade cycle, and inundated with notifications and apps vying for your attention.

No.

You can also dissent.

You can also resist.

And if newer is worse (for you), it's your obligation to do so.

> You can also dissent. You can also resist.

Covered by ‘complaining’.

Covered by using my battery-drained iPhone (which I only have because I was being paid money to have it) as a beer opener. It's not a very good beer opener but gets the point across really well. Socioeconomic pressure works both ways.

> Is newer better?

No, but we have to fill up those land fills and line those pockets somehow!