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I agree, once alot of providers stopped offering subsidized prices for phones with contracts I feel like myself and others stopped buying a new iphone every 2 years. The larger models cost as much as a laptop and that is a really steep cost for the average American to deal with every 2 years.

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The phones also started stagnating in additional utility for new models. Smaller and smaller portions of people gain anything going from one model to the next. A $500 iPhone SE has plenty of camera and processing power for people, and it is basically an iPhone 8.