I have had my iPhone 6 since March 2015 so I thought it would be time to upgrade.  That phone only had a 16G hard drive so things were really getting tight.  For at least a year I had less than 2Gs left so I had to delete lesser used apps to make room.  I couldn't even upgrade to IOS 11.

I went over to the AT&T Store in downtown Flushing and purchased the iPhone 8 with a 256G hard drive.  I will never have to worry about running out of disk space again.  I will be able to transfer music from my CD collection to this phone.  The new phone has IOS 12, so I'll have to take time to figure out its capabilities.

I guess planned obsolescence is the issue as Apple forces you to buy a new phone every few years.