First of all, I don’t need to save my money. I have sufficient discretionary income.
And no, I didn’t know of the fast, planned obsolescence of these products going in. I do now and will act accordingly.
I take a little umbrage at the term “planned obsolescence” in this context. It’s not that the manufacturers are deliberately making changes for the mere sake of making changes, as in the ‘50s era automobiles from Detroit. It’s just that the past validity of Moore’s Law teaches us to expect that better digital technology will become available soon. The makers of digital chips can’t make half as good a chip now as they plan to be able to make in two years. And in two years, that same statement will still be true.So you just have to wait until you feel that you will get your money’s worth out of a new digital device quickly.