My old IPhone 3GS crashed around the time the IPhone 10 was coming out. There’s no way I was about to pay $1000.00 for a new IPhone, so I payed $120.00 for an Android LG K30. Hopefully I get 7 1/2 years out of it.
I’d be willing to shell out perhaps $400 for a feature phone/smart phone, but I’ve never had one, so I’d probably be headed for the most durable one. The Android phones have the same kind of obsolescence problem over a period of time, but I’d want something that I could rely on for a long period time, since I’ll have to learn how to use something. If Apple got its head out of its ass and put SIM card slots into their pads (nice big screens for my tired old eyes), I’d be there in a heartbeat. Apple won’t though, because they’d be undercutting their own most profitable product line. That could change of course, assuming that AppleTV subscriptions take off (I don’t know why people try to watch movies on the relatively tiny screens of phones).