Yeah, that's the trouble. On one hand, the consumer doesn't need to replace their entire phone as often. On the other, the consumer doesn't need to replace their entire phone as often. Plus all the headaches of compatible hardware, 3rd party knock-offs, and dysfunctional, proprietary drivers. I don't know if that's necessarily true of phones / tablets / laptops, but it definitely happened in the desktop market. I could build a fancy gaming computer now for less than my laptop costed in 2010.It'll take a company like Google or Amazon to do that, though, because in order to pursue this model you have to be hell-bent on annihilating your competition through forbearance of profit.
We've reached a point where the average consumer doesn't need all the goddamn horsepower you can buy anymore, either in a phone, or a desktop, or a laptop, or a tablet