Not a phone, a mobile computer with a lot of connectivity, senors, compute power, etc.

Nevertheless, it is a lot of money to ask for something you will drop, break, lose, replace in a couple of years because its battery has failed. And you can’t even really do what you want with it.

Define “a couple of years”. I am using an iPhone 11 Pro and only just now am I upgrading to a 16 pro, mostly for the camera. The phone itself still works well, including the battery.

Most iPhone users keep their phones less than three years: https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/10/how-long-people-keep-iphones/

I’m also buying used iPhones and keeping them longer than that but we’re outliers.

And what happens to the old ones? I bet they are mostly resold, which is what I typically do.

That’s neither here nor there. I was saying it’s insane to me to pay several thousand dollars for a phone that’ll be replaced after 2–3 years (typically)

iPhone? A very restricted mobile computer.

You can barely choose what software runs on it.

Kind of a shame that Windows Phone died.

Indeed. We need competition