I don't really see any downsides to annual phone releases. For those people who want to upgrade every year, they can, for everyone else, you upgrade when you want to and you get a pretty new phone. I definitely agree the improvements for slab phones has slowed down a bunch, but there are still pretty big leaps in foldables, etc.
I don’t really see any downsides to annual phone releases. For those people who want to upgrade every year, they can
You really can't see any downside in upgrading your phone every single year? I'll give you a clue, it starts with an E and ends with a T and it is constantly being degraded by the mining and manufacturing required to flood the market with annual releases that are barely an improvement on the previous iteration.
It was only a couple years ago that I would mock iPhone users for buying overpriced phones but they're 1:1 on pricing now, and the iPhone is a wayyyy better value...
I hope this Pixel flops and they get some sense knocked into them...