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Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and

The CNBC article treats people keeping their phones and laptops a little longer like it’s some kind of social failing, which is ridiculous. Calling it “device hoarding” is already doing too much. Most people aren’t sitting on mountains of dead iPhones, they’re just not rushing out to replace a perfectly functional device every 18 months. When hardware lasts longer and upgrades have slowed to a crawl, it’s perfectly rational to hang on to what you’ve got.

The article also leans on the idea that old devices are dragging down productivity, especially for small businesses. That’s an oversimplification. Replacing hardware isn’t just a swipe of a credit card. It costs money, time, and effort and it ignores the reality that a lot of “new” devices aren’t meaningfully better than the ones from a few years ago. If the speed boost is marginal, why upgrade at all? Framing this as some kind of national economic threat feels like a stretch.

Bigger picture, the article is pushing the same growth-first logic that assumes the economy collapses if people don’t constantly buy more stuff. It doesn’t even touch environmental waste, repairability, or the idea that maybe consumer thrift is a good thing. Painting slower upgrade cycles as harmful puts the blame on individuals instead of on tech companies that haven’t given people a real reason to upgrade.

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