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.
@Metal-Brain
Apple are the biggest villains but all manufacturers are doing it.
My first washing machine lasted 15 years. I've had 4 in the past 10 years!
Toasters that used to last a life time now only 4 or 5 years.
The only thing that seems to last longer than in the past are cars.
Thank you Toyota!
@Paul-Martin saidI'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.
@Metal-Brain
The only thing that seems to last longer than in the past are cars.
Thank you Toyota!
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.