You make a good distinction. In my opinion this question can be answered in two ways:

• A movie that holds up being just as good on a rewatch.

• Movies where you either pick up on clues/details on further rewatches once you know the full movie. Or that are just so dense/layered that you just can't catch everyrhing the first time you watch it

Doesn't matter how often you see scenes like ride of the rohirrim, they remain just as epic as they were the first time.

Another issue with YouTube is that media, especially video is vastly more resource demanding than anything mostly text based.

With something like Twitter or Reddit (as long as you don't directly host all media) the quality and importance of each post relative to it's resources needed don't really matter that much.

Especially with high bitrate video footage on the other hand it does matter. So having a drive for profit somewhere in the chain does in someway help shape the system to be viable financially.

Is there any actual benefit for so much RAM in a phone? Outside of a higher number for marketing and increasing the price? And does this also increase power consumption or is there any benefit to more RAM that counteracts that?

Personally i am still waiting for phones to become proper desktop replacements, in which case i'd maybe see more use in this. They already have more than enough performance for the average user, since 9/10 people probably just browse the web and do some general office work.

Add to that requirements for longer software support. At least for security patches.

Looking at the budget i wonder if actually canning it was ever on the table.

Honestly in my personal experience weight loss is like 90% diet. It simply is much easier to eat less compared to how much it takes to burn those consumed calories. General fitness and feeling better through that is imo more where exercise comes into play. So I'll split my answer into two parts.

Building sustainable habits is how you achieve your goal

1kg of fat is around 7700 calories. There are a ton of different diets and ways to lose weight. It's probably very subjective which ones work best for a person. But in the end they all come down to reducing consumed calories.

For me it was basically easiest to adjust the further away from eating the change happened. So adjusting what/how much I buy. And then the portion sizes being cooked. Once it's actually on the table/plate it becomes much harder for me.

But others might be different and intermittent fasting or something completely different will work.

As far as exercise goes again the best one is the one you enjoy and thus actually stick with doing regularly.

For stamina I ended up with running (stared with the couch to 5k program), but others might prefer something like cycling.

For strength just having a pair of dumbbells laying around (later added a bench) got me started since I preferred that over other types of exercise. There are plenty of basic routines e.g. on YouTube. I don't really think especially which one you pick as long as you start.

You are right that the tech-savy can extend their longevity through custom ROMs, but that isn't for the average user. And you shouldn't have to resort to that to begin with.

The update policy just makes otherwise great phones become obsolete (in some ways) way too fast.

Sony smartphones for example are imo great in many ways (e.g. still retain the headphone jack and sd card slot) outside of being pricey. Yet they only get 2 years of updates (and maybe slightly longer security updates). That's just not acceptable in any world. Especially when you might not want to buy them at lauch price, since unlike iphones you can get decent discounts on androids for older models.

That has to be the biggest factor by far. I got my pixel 6a for around 300€ total with a mobile plan (free calls, sms and a small amount of data)

Does everything I and realistically the vast majority of people need it for. And you can get perfectly usable phones for even less.

There is no way apple can beat that value, even if their update policy and thus longevity is one of the few things I envy.

Also many benefits of the iphone imo rely on being invested in their ecosystem.