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I tend to wait a fairly long time between upgrades (I still have an iPhone X) but I still generally agree. If you can afford it, it's hard for me to say that something you use all the time is a waste of money. The waste of money IMO is something which I have absolutely been guilty of at times which is buying something for a few hundred dollars and then barely using it.

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The counter argument is that it is a waste if you aren’t making full use of the difference in spec sheets. Its like buying a car that can go 200mph then using it to drive A to B at the speed limit, same as you can do in a honda civic. Phones are faster, sure, but how much power do your use cases actually require?

For me, all I do is email/text/call/mobile web, so getting a processor 10x faster than last generation is a waste of compute resources considering the last generation did all of the above without strain.

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