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Not really. I know a few iPhone users who have kept their phones for a long time. The most impressive case was a guy who had had the same phone for 11 years and only had to buy a new one because an update fried the old one.
True. If every iPhone user was a throwaway consumer, there wouldn't have been such an outrage over apple "updating" slowness and inefficiency into older devices.
Says all the iPhone users. Your phones are throttled by the manufacturers and you still defend them and buy their products. Not very smart consumers. Sorry.
I don't understand how one can believe it just works. Update fries the phone so they buy a new one from the same company that can't or won't make sure updates don't fry older phones. Apple hates backwards compatibility.
I mean, I don't get the love for Apple either, I just didn't agree with the claim that all iPhone users were the types to discard a perfectly good phone for a new one 2 years later just because the new one was cooler.
The fact that someone can buy a new iPhone after having had an old one crash due to updates is their own prerogative.
I personally have a very low understanding of tech, but to me, it just seems like an industry standard to make phones that won't live forever. Everybody does it. They could have given us phones with batteries that never wear out. They could have designed the tech to make sure it would work on all phones. They could halt tech evolution to make sure that no phone is left behind. But none of them do.
I originally wanted a button phone after my prior smartphone died. Then my government decided to force a new ID system on its citizens and make it exceedingly annoying and difficult to function in society without a smartphone. So I had to cave and get myself a new smartphone and wave goodbye to button phones forever.
I don't know how long this phone will last me, but I hope it will survive ten years at the very least. Even though it isn't an iPhone I avoid updates for as long as the phone allows me to because I don't want to wake up one day and suddenly have a phone that doesn't work.
We are all being scammed to some extent. Not just iPhone users.