[PrimeMcFly]

> and these devices now last a very long time if you don't feel like chasing the yearly upgrade train.

But they constantly make new devices with incremental improvements and advertise/market for people to upgrade when they don't need to - and people do exactly that.

[Klonoar]

Yes... and they can trade it in. That's a responsible way to handle the need to sell more products each year.

[PrimeMcFly]

Or they could not make incremental improvements and mass produce phones to try and sell products each year, which definitely is not a need.