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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Relique du Madde" data-source="post: 5551912" data-attributes="member: 42169">Not really.  It depends on the nature of the device.  People expect a iMac or a PC to last between 4 to 10 years ideally before it is completely useless, hence all the innovations those machines receive reflect this nature and tend to be purely hardware or peripheral based and often take long periods of time to pan out due to their viability.  Portable devices are expected to last 2-3 years since they receive an extreme amount of abuse and could easily be damaged or lost.  This almost necessitates for their to be at least one new model every year to prevent people from waiting more than two years for their next purchase.This may also be why the iOS "innovations" are staggered quarterly rather then having every new idevice come out in February since if your iPhone, iPod, and iPad all have the same hardware and software there is no need to purchase a new iPhone in 6 months, Pod this month or a iPad in 9, you'll just get the iPhone now, iPad next year, and hold off until one of the breaks.  However, since you know the iPod will have something your iPhone won't for another year you are more likely to cycle between the three devices every year or two due to the expectation that one of the devices will become completely obsolete every other or every third iteration.On the android side, since the platform is so young it is hard to tell how long it takes devices seem to become completely obsolete (considering that about 25% still run 2.1 and about 10-15% run versions under 2.0.</blockquote>

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