I am very unhappy with Apple Corporation. They say that 7 years after they stop making an i phone model they considered it obsolete and will not provide updates. That means my i phone 7 is stuck with the old operating system and I cannot get new ones. Since many apps require a newer OS to get an app the i phone 7 is becoming increasingly useless.
Since the i phone 7 is the most efficient of all of the i phones I find this particularly egregious. Because of this I will never buy an Apple product again. I encourage you all to do the same. The only reason they are doing that is because they think you will buy another i phone.
Buy a Samsung instead to send Apple a message. We don't like planned obsolescence. It is inefficient and inefficiency is bad for the environment.
The post that was quoted here has been removedI'm still driving my 1963 VW split screen van (second owner). Spare parts are available, NOS made in So. America, often with original German-VW part numbers. I upgraded to electronic ignition many years ago, otherwise it's original. Just change the tires and the oil regularly.
Steel bicycles are another exception. There are lugged steel bicycles from the 1890s still on the road. I see them at vintage cycling events. Carbon bikes won't last that long--the frames get micro-fractures.
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@Metal-Brain saidI too had my suspicions that Apple were shortening the useable lifespan of their iPhones in order to drive upgrades; but this is not borne out in reality and independent citations show that the number of years before obsolescence is increasing, according to what I’ve read.
I am very unhappy with Apple Corporation. They say that 7 years after they stop making an i phone model they considered it obsolete and will not provide updates. That means my i phone 7 is stuck with the old operating system and I cannot get new ones. Since many apps require a newer OS to get an app the i phone 7 is becoming increasingly useless.
Since the i phone 7 i ...[text shortened]... . We don't like planned obsolescence. It is inefficient and inefficiency is bad for the environment.
However some independent app developers will modify their app to be optimised on the latest device software and drop support for previous versions. Other developers do not do this as quickly, and this is true for all smartphones. So it seems that IOS upgrades are in fact lengthening phone relevance for newer devices but some developers are not supporting old versions of app which is may be driving your disappointment.
I cannot abide the Android OS as I find the interface clunky and unintuitive so will never be switching no matter what Apple get up to. Many Android users complain about the intrusiveness of the Bixby app which seems to be impossible to deactivate. For laptop or desktop I choose Microsoft over Apple simply because I got so used to it during corporate employment.
I did buy a new MacBook Pro in 2015 which I still have pristine in its box; it’s got about 9 battery charge cycles on it so it’s essentially brand new. One day it might be worth more than the £1,500 I wasted on it. It doesn’t have a backspace/delete key which is the single most bizarre and annoying thing about it.
I finally had to let go of my iPhone 6 a few weeks ago. The battery was crapping out, among other things.
Then I was faced with the problem that just about all mainstream "smart" phones these days are gigantic millstones. That is, they're impractically sized, barely able to fit in the hand or a pocket. I hate that crap. My phone is not my life, and I use it for very little outside texts and calls. In the end I settled for a used iPhone 13 Mini -- the last reasonable-sized phone Apple ever made, and only slightly larger than the iPhone 6.
@diver saidThe delete key on a MacBook deletes a character to the left of the cursor. There is no key that deletes a character to the right of the cursor, which is annoying, though fn+delete does the job.
It doesn’t have a backspace/delete key which is the single most bizarre and annoying thing about it.
That keyboards lack a dash key I find eternally vexing. A dash is a common punctuation symbol! And yet there is a ~ symbol, which is worthless to everyone—except maybe programmers. And what about useless crap like ^, |, and _? Once again you can tell keyboards were designed by programmers for their own benefit. This should change, but it never does.
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@Soothfast saidIt might do that now, but it’s doesn’t on my 2015 MacBook Pro, which doesn’t have a “delete” key at all. You have to use a function key plus another.
The delete key on a MacBook deletes a character to the left of the cursor. There is no key that deletes a character to the right of the cursor, which is annoying, though fn+delete does the job.
On my 2015 model you cannot effectively “backspace”. It’s ridiculous from a company so good at most other things.
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@Soothfast saidMy wife has an iPhone 6SE which is still supported. However we've paid to upgrade the battery for £100. Having said that she wants a bigger phone as she already has the text size on max.
I finally had to let go of my iPhone 6 a few weeks ago. The battery was crapping out, among other things.
Then I was faced with the problem that just about all mainstream "smart" phones these days are gigantic millstones. That is, they're impractically sized, barely able to fit in the hand or a pocket. I hate that crap. My phone is not my life, and I use it for very lit ...[text shortened]... Mini -- the last reasonable-sized phone Apple ever made, and only slightly larger than the iPhone 6.
On another note, I’m wondering if I might not even have a smartphone in a few years … what with digital ID and all that is being promised.