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Planned obsolescence has been a business strategy for most smartphone manufacturers. I hate to see it move into third party add-ons like headphones.
If there is any good news, it is that like with desktops/laptops phone hardware is getting to the place that you don't need 8 cores and 8 gigs of ram to do basic tasks. And falling sales is starting to reflect that reality. Older phones and even even cheapo smartphones are sufficient for most tasks now. The biggest hurdle is outdated software. CyanogenMod or other OS's could help if the phones were not so locked down.
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