Do you understand what "designed obsolescence" even means? It means that a manufacturer designs a product with parts that can be improved upon when cost to build become cheaper and manufacturing becomes more efficient to warrant the upgrade of a product. The concept of shelling out money for less than stellar expansion is in now way the same as designed obsolescence. On top of all of that I would also like to point out an iPhone does not actually throw the same parts in as the previous generation, various improvements are made such a processing power, better/bigger screen, better camera, more battery life, improvements to software integration and other similar improvements are made based on industry standards that might have changed over the generation gap between past and present products. You in fact don't know "how the world works". "Paying with your wallet" is not as simple as it seems voicing your opinion en masse is a more effective means to getting results, and in this day and age I'm not surprised that you and many others would think you're just another wallet in a sea of them. That's consumerism at work I suppose....