That’s the thing – it’s different from the crappy luxury watch because the watch will still perform its absolute function well enough. You can’t tell if a luxury watch is technically crappy from looking at it, and an average consumer could win or inherit one and enjoy it their whole lives without ever really noticing what was bad about it. They’d just fix the time every few weeks.
A Vertu phone, however, immediately exposes its functional poor quality and obsolescence. For example, until a couple of years ago, you couldn’t surf the web on Vertu phones.
You could call the concierge to surf it for you and tell you what was on it, though.
via @frauenfelder
