Some people like to buy new phones

Some people like to buy new phones, new desktop or other latest devices. To what extent do you agree or disagree? I firmly disagree of always buying the latest devices. It is irrational to buy a new phone every year when this new phone will have almost the same features as the phone released the year before. Not only it is the same phone, but the price is extremely expensive, and you are paying for that price because it is the latest phone of its generation. I am happy that innovation led us to the state of technology that we are experiencing today, but excess of everything is bad. The problem is companies that are trying to sell us these things are good at creating an environment that will want you to always buy their products. This phenomena is sometimes called the commodification of technology. These latest phones or devices are not really commodities, but companies spends a lot of money and effort to make them look like commodities, by repeatedly telling us to buy the products using advertisements. The thing with repetition is sometimes your brain will think an idea or a concept is true or valid when it keeps on seeing or hearing them every time, and that is a bad thing. Advertisements come in different forms. They are pervasive and ubiquitous, meaning they are part of our daily lives that sometimes we just unconsciously accept them. So I personally believe that this trend that we are talking about is a bad idea. Let us buy stuff if it fits our needs, not because of some social pressure or any other reasons.