If you read the summary closely (I know, "Read! I don't come to /. To READ!") you'll see it isn't just cellphones they mean by 'devices'...

For people to hold on to devices for 22 months in 2016 means they were holding on to 2014 era devices. An iPhone 6 cost $600 in 2014.

For people to be holding on to devices for 29 months in 2025 means they are holding on to 2022 era devices. An iPhone 14 in 2022 cost $800.

Perhaps people hold on to them because replacements cost more, not less, than the device to be replaced?

When talking about computers, you'd think half the world was still running Win 10 computers that were too old for Win 11 (without hacks) the way everyone was talking last month about Win 10 EOL...

1) HSR needs to travel at a multiple of the speed of highway traffic to be considered HSR by most people, I suspect. If a HSR train travelled down the median of a highway and the trains travelled at the same speed as traffic (60-80 MPH), what's the benefit (aside from reduced carbon), and you travel to/from train stations (not your driveway) and on the HSR train's schedule (not whenever you want)...

2) The issue isn't the land between cities, it's the land near the cities - If I'm running a train from Chicago to Denver, for example, there's very little "public land" the Gov't could just give HSR lines, and if you have to put the HSR station 20 miles outside downtown Denver of Chicago, that alone becomes a barrier to access (sure add a bus/light rail line, but that only slightly impacts the issue of access from anywhere inside Denver of Chicago, for example).

I don't think a 50% bump in the on-hand inventory is real a dramatic increase. If Lenovo used to keep 30 days on memory in-stock and now they have 45 days in-stock, that's not such a big deal in my opinion - when I hear Mfg "stockpiling" parts, they are making significant investments like one supplier I work with, they heard a particular part required for their current product was being discontinued, so they ordered a 12 month supply to carry then until they can engineer a new product with a different part - that is what I think of when I hear someone is "stockpiling" a component.

So you imagine trans-continental high-speed rail train travel will be just like boarding a SEPTA or MARTA commuter train? It won't.

There will be TSA, there will be baggage checks, and like airports, HSR train stations will be outside the major cities, no in downtown.

HSR travels at a fraction of the speed of a jumbo jet liner, I can cross the country - NY to SF in under 8 hours, how can a train beat that? I can fly NYC to Chicago in less than two hours, and by HSR, how long would it take? Be sure to factor in stops in Pittsburgh and Ohio...

Living near a train station where trains pass slowly as they approach/leave the station is very, very different from living next to a busy freight line where mile-long trains ramble by every hour or so, including in the middle of the night.

France's trains are electric, and 2/3rds of French electricity is from nuclear power - is that the model the US should adopt?

Jesus Christ, twice now No, it doesn't - "interstate" means between states, intrastate means inside one state.

Acela isn't HSR, and it stops way too often to be considered HSR.

Please explain the route your imaginary SD to LA to SJ to SF train would take, because the actual LA to SF train takes a crazy path to get from one end to the other, easily 2x the actual distance between SF and LA - the direct route is impossible.

No, you mean intrastate, interstate means between states, intrastate means within one state.

You can't have people drive cars across railroad tracks when the trains travel at 160 mph! You just can't, as a practical matter, and as you slow down the train, you lose the reason for the HSR line...

HSR travels at 160 MPH, and needs to be separated from vehicle/pedestrian traffic for any number of safety reasons... you can't just run a HSR line down the median of a divided highway or on the shoulder. In the median you have to figure out the mid-span support of every overpass, and on the shoulder you have to re-arrange on/off ramps. Oh, and you really can't just run a 160 mph train through a residential neighborhood, and you can't, ever, have cars cross the HSR tracks.

The CA HSR project demonstrates ever issue clearly, take a look at the issues there, then tell me how to fix it.

Or, better comparison THE CURRENT HSR line being built between SF and LA?

Are they high speed rail trains, or scenic trains? They dig tunnels or route around mountains rather than going over mountains for any real rail traffic.

Scenic rail trains travel at 40 mph, high speed rail travels at 160 mph.

Tell you what, next time you're driving somewhere with a passenger, just randomly pull over to the fade of the road for 10 minutes and if they as what you're doing, tell them you're waiting for a train to pass by... it will never fly.

For myriad reasons, you can't run a 160 mile per hour train alongside a public road, that just insane and unsafe.