My solution to this problem is make sure that whatever phone I buy has a strong hacker community around it so that I can unofficially upgrade whenever I wish.
This is awesome. Not because of any of the parent's points, but simply because we're living in a world where telephones have their own communities of hackers. How fast did that happen?
I still have a phone that does little more than make phone calls, and the best hackers in the world when it came out were barely able to get it playing "snake". And it's not a very old phone.
My general rule now is to not buy a tech product if it's not hackable. Even my wrist watch (a Timex Datalink) is running custom software to enhance its interface.
This is awesome. Not because of any of the parent's points, but simply because we're living in a world where telephones have their own communities of hackers. How fast did that happen?
I still have a phone that does little more than make phone calls, and the best hackers in the world when it came out were barely able to get it playing "snake". And it's not a very old phone.
The future rules!