A few weeks ago, I had to take my phone to the Google Store for a battery swap. My phone is nearly three years old, and the battery had begun running dry midway through my school days.
A battery replacement set me back $70, which is roughly one-tenth of the cost of a new phone. I remember how in high school, when iPhones and Androids were new, phone upgrades were ubiquitous. I had classmates whose families upgraded their phones each year, and the new models always felt like a massive upgrade from the one before.
The same day as my appointment at the Google Store, my girlfriend popped into the Apple Store a few blocks over. She had owned her iPhone for more than five years. It had begun experiencing hardware problems that could no longer be attributed to the natural slowing of technology as software advances, and she had little choice but to replace her phone.
It struck me how unexcited we both were for our errands. My g…
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