Okay, I'm pretty sure I've expressed my comtempt with how technology keeps advancing so fast that people can't even keep up with it, I'm also pretty sure I've mentioned the old Best Buy commercial where they basically say, "You know that TV, computer, or camera you just bought? Guess what? It's outdated already! But don't worry, just bring it back, and you can exchange it for the latest model, which too will be outdated in another month or so!"? The recent iPhone commercial (the one where the dad gives his little girl his old one, then later sells it for cash) is basically forcing people to get rid of their current phones to get the new one that's getting ready to come out, they might as well have put a big disclaimer at the end, in bright letters that says, "YOUR CURRENT PHONE SUCKS, SELL IT SO YOU CAN GET THE NEW ONE THAT ISN'T EVEN OUT YET!"
Those AT&T (I think) commercials with Bill Hader, while funny, kind of have the same passive aggressive marketing strategy as well, only they just come right out and basically say you have to replace your phone every two years. Every two years? Come on, give me a break, perfectly working cellphones (obviously not what Bill has in these commercials) don't just up and die or stop working in two years. Honestly, my last cellphone before I had my current one forced on me (seriously, I RARELY, if ever, even use any of these apps or browse the web on it or anything) I had for five years, and you know what? It STILL worked! Just because it was a flip phone, and not one of those fancy-dancy Androids or SmartPhones or iPhones or whatever didn't mean it didn't serve it's purpose... heck, the call quality was actually BETTER on that old thing than my current phone, everybody on the other end sounds incredibly muffled and it's hard to understand them.
I'm reminded of an old BEETLE BAILEY comic strip where Miss Buxley muses over the various different reasons the campers use computers, such as Sarge IMing everyone with his angry rants, the General always keeping up with golf scores, Killer flirting with women all over the world, Rocky downloading music, Beetle goofing off and playing games all day, and Zero not even knowing how to turn a computer on, to which she then exclaims, "And I thought computers were supposed to make our lives BETTER!" It's almost the same thing: advances in technology aren't so much advances anymore as they as just rushes.