[2-4-Flinching]

You don't have to drop $600 every year and a half. Which would only be $34 a month over that period.

You can drop $600 every 3 years with google devices and have monthly security updates. You could save $17 every month for that 3 year time to buy the next phone.

If you want to stay secure you will, if it not a priority you wont.

[pjmlp]

Which is a waste of money for a device that otherwise is fully working.

The beauty of consumist society and digital waste.

[hocuspocus]

Except Google stopped selling $600 devices.

The Pixels are incredibly overpriced given the hardware. I bought a Nexus 6P when they got under $400 and I honestly don't know what I'll do a year from now.

[iainmerrick]

Or you can spend $200 and get a pretty good, non-flagship phone, with software that's (usually almost) as up-to-date as the flagships.