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Comment by ua709

3 hours ago

> Not allowing downgrades is the biggest contributor to smartphones becoming e-waste.

Citation needed. My guess is the biggest contributor to smartphones becoming e-waste is gravity.

I have heard many replace their phones due to dropping them and becoming unusable. But everyone uses a case now and the build quality is generally better that one mishap does trash the phone. Most people I know getting new phones now did so bc their old phone "got too slow to be usable." I believe that's a matter of new OS versions really are much heavier. Both my last 2 phones I had upgraded bc I went one version too far and had a nearly bricked phone.