Re: Official Flashaholics
To be technical, a phone does have its own artificial intelligence so I have to disagree. There are plenty of Phandroids who love having several different smartphones despite having no practical need for that many.
Its more likely that THEY perceived a need...for example, one might work better for one thing, but not as well for another...so, they supplemented their inventory with something that filled the gap.
For example, many new smart phones no longer support Flash, and, some people's lives involve applications requiring Flash (One example)....so, they have to decide to either get something that DOES support flash, or, to drop that part of their life, etc. The phone that does support flash might not allow multiple applications to run simultaneously, and, their life might involve the need to run multiple applications simultaneously, and so forth.
One phone might be on a plan that provides reception in a location that they need to have reception in, and another might not have reception in that location, but may get better reception in a different area, and so forth.
Some people have phones for personal use, and, additional phones for business use, as they may need to differentiate calls/phone bills/expense accounts, etc. Some people use their phones to process payments, and there are associated PCI compliance criteria, and/or browser/OS incompatibilities between some online credit card processors and systems, etc.
So, if you add up all the ways in which having more than one phone might make sense, for someone, its easier to imagine why someone might need more than one phone. Just like any other tool set, the individual is the one who justifies the set, based upon what THEY need/want.
If they are collectors, sure, all bets are off....as, afterall, really, will a stamp collector ever NEED any of the collected stamps?
(I have one phone I use for both business and personal use, so I don't fit the multiple phone group criteria)
In any case, the idea of wanting to do the research and select the best light option, implies that you want the best light option, and spent at least some time trying to choose it, rather than simply walking into Wallyworld and buying the first flashlight you saw on the shelf.
That means that you WANTED a good light, and, were willing to spend at least some time on it.
It also implies that if you were to repeat the process, or, theoretically, done this in 2 years instead of now, you would not choose what you chose today, as, in 2 years, the options might be better...and you WOULD HAVE chosen a better light than you chose today.
So.....say 2 years from now, you would either decide that you DON'T want the best light, you want a 2 year older version that is less bright, has less range, and less cell life, etc...or, you'd decide to get whatever is top shelf at the time.
As when choosing this time (Present), you did NOT choose to purchase something with less output and so forth due to its obsolescence, it is reasonable to assume that you would not make that choice 2 years from now.
If you do not upgrade though, you ARE making that choice though...hence the concept of upgrading periodically.
My personal feeling is that if the light you HAVE is working for you, and you simply don't run into scenarios where its unable to get dim enough or bright enough, or run long enough, or be small enough to carry around conveniently, then really, there's no NEED to upgrade.
In real life though, as progress marches on, you find that your big light with high out put is too large to keep with you, so, you don't always have it with you when needed....so the upgrade is often to get a light with the same output in a smaller/lighter form factor that works better in that regard.
WHEN you decide to do that is of course a function of your own personal criteria, as in HOW small/light or, brighter, etc, is ENOUGH to be WORTH swapping for?
