Absolutely no evidence for your "theory", which is the same old "planned obsolescence" canard we hear over and over about Apple. Always without evidence, and it always looks silly 3-4 years down the road when, lo and behold, all the machines in question are still working very nicely.
Also, once the market catches up to USB-C, which will take 12-18 months, you'll no longer need those adapters.
Lastly, it's just silly and inaccurate to call the iPhone "disposable", when in fact it leads the industry in terms of how long the product lasts, how long the OS is supported for older hardware, etc. By a wide margin.
> Absolutely no evidence for your "theory", which is the same old "planned obsolescence" canard we hear over and over about Apple. Always without evidence
My current MBP from 2010 shipped with a broken GPU Apple refuses to replace in warranty (even though I bought a 3 year support contract which is pretty much an anti harassment tax). Yeah, premium support right there. The only reason I can use it is because some intelligent and nice people released a piece of open source software (with various 3rd party fixes to make it keep working in later OS X revisions) allowing me to swap to integrated instead of discrete graphics card.
> Also, once the market catches up to USB-C, which will take 12-18 months, you'll no longer need those adapters.
You do, well maybe you don't. But I would, and many other too. For all the devices you are currently using which you're not replacing with USB-C devices.
> Lastly, it's just silly and inaccurate to call the iPhone "disposable", when in fact it leads the industry in terms of how long the product lasts, how long the OS is supported for older hardware, etc. By a wide margin.
Well, you need to upgrade to the latest iOS or you can forget about security fixes. According to reports this leads to a lot less uptime and/or a slower device. So its far less rose tinted than you claim. Besides, the iPhone 4 doesn't get software updates anymore.
On top of that, yes an iPhone is disposable from a hardware PoV as well. You can't upgrade any of the hardware, replacing the screen costs (in my country) 150+ EUR, you can't replace the battery (even though you are recharging daily which means after 3 years the battery is ripe for replacement).
By contrast, my phone is getting security backports to its older Android version (5.1.x). I can replace the battery and screen myself without a problem.
Sorry, but you're wrong about iOS not supporting security fixes, and you're having to create an artificial situation to justify your argument: the situation where a user doesn't stay updated to the latest iOS, when in fact, the user has every motivation to do so.
Meanwhile, in your Android world, there are basically NO devices that are able to stay fully up-to-date with current Android for more than about 12-18 months. Apple wins here by a wide margin, supporting devices for 4-5 years, universally, no need to get lucky and have one of the 2-3% of Android phones that actually get updated a tiny bit longer.
iPhones are just as easy to replace the battery and screen in as any modern Android device; in addition, Apple provides screen and battery replacements.
Did I mention that Apple's warranty and warranty support are also vastly superior? Because they are. Especially with AppleCare, but even without.
> Sorry, but you're wrong about iOS not supporting security fixes, and you're having to create an artificial situation to justify your argument: the situation where a user doesn't stay updated to the latest iOS, when in fact, the user has every motivation to do so.
Read, comprehend, and then post.
I said the current iOS version. The latest iOS versions vastly decrease the performance, especially on the older iPhones. So the user has a choice:
* No security updates.
* The latest and the greatest with decreased performance.
Have fun with your insecure or slow iPhone. (The same applies for iPad.)
> Meanwhile, in your Android world, there are basically NO devices that are able to stay fully up-to-date with current Android for more than about 12-18 months.
Yes, with security updates, there are and its improving as well. Any Google Pixel. The Fairphone 2. Samsung Galaxy S series. And many others.
You carefully worded "stay fully up-to-date with current Android"; that is irrelevant. I don't give a shit about this hipster hype of needing the latest features. All I want is a phone which keeps working, and remains secure.
> iPhones are just as easy to replace the battery and screen in as any modern Android device; in addition, Apple provides screen and battery replacements.
Like I said, with my phone I just replace the screen or battery myself. Without even needing a (special) screwdriver.
Repairing iPhone screen is very expensive. I see youth all the time running around with their broken iPhone screens. I've never heard of someone going to an Apple store to replace their battery?
I have zero interest in Apple's locked down iDevices, and I want the MBP to stay away from that world. Unfortunately for me (and the many others who agree) it is exactly where macOS and the Macbooks are heading towards.
> Did I mention that Apple's warranty and warranty support are also vastly superior? Because they are. Especially with AppleCare, but even without.
AppleCare = anti harassment tax. Completely pointless. You have the same rights already from EU law, but you may have to enforce them via a lawsuit if they don't oblige.
Besides that, I had AppleCare with my MBP 2010 and they claim that their design flaw didn't fall under it. Fool me once, ...
>> Besides that, I had AppleCare with my MBP 2010 and they claim that their design flaw didn't fall under it. Fool me once, ...
I feel for you. A lot of people who had the defective Early 2011 15" MBPs with discrete GPU issues (also a defectivd design, imo) also had mixed outcomes when dealing with Apple. Mine bricked right after my AppleCare lapsed (had logic board replaced once under applecare, only took 2 months for problem to recur because of its defective design). I ended up buying a PC laptop. A few months later, Apple issued the repair order/recall. I was lucky I didn't recycle it or sell it for parts before the order was issued.
> Read, comprehend, and then post.
I said the current iOS version. The latest iOS versions vastly decrease the performance, especially on the older iPhones. So the user has a choice:
* No security updates.
* The latest and the greatest with decreased performance.
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You shouldn't snark when you're not even right. You don't know what you're talking about. Apple is able to push out vital security updates WITHOUT doing a full software update, first off, and second, you have no evidence that older iOS versions are lacking for any important updates.
You're also wrong about "vastly decreased" performance. I work with lots of iPhones for a living. Those models are slower because they are slower to begin with; Apple actually works quite hard to maintain acceptable performance with current iOS even on older models. I concede that the 4S is really too slow now under iOS 10, but the 5 and 5S are just fine, and as I've claimed in this thread, that constitutes MUCH better support by Apple for older devices than by the Android market. You citing the Google Pixel is just a fantasy and shows how hilariously off your argument is; that's a device with TWO MONTHS of history behind it thus far. You actually have no clue how long it will be supported; you're guessing and hoping about the future in response to a solid argument about the present and the recent past. Apple is kicking Android's ass in this department, that's universally understood.
>Yes, with security updates, there are and its improving as well. Any Google Pixel. The Fairphone 2. Samsung Galaxy S series. And many others.
Another distorted lie-response to a claim I didn't make; I didn't say "with security updates". I said full compatibility with the fully-updated software.
>I've never heard of someone going to an Apple store to replace their battery?
That's because you don't know anything about iPhones. Clearly. It's a very very common repair.
>I have zero interest in Apple's locked down iDevices
Yes, your bias is evident, but thanks. Tragically what you're missing here is that locked-down nature also makes the devices secure. You are boasting about security "updates" for a platform that is fundamentally insecure. Do you recall reading any stories about FBI pressuring Google or Android phone makers to unlock a phone for a vital terrorism case? Yeah. Me neither. Got any idea why that is?
>Repairing iPhone screen is very expensive.
You probably have no clue what it actually costs.
>I don't give a shit about this hipster hype of needing the latest features. All I want is a phone which keeps working, and remains secure.
Things can't "remain secure" that weren't secure in the first place. And updated OS software is not "hipster hype", no matter what you think.
> That's hilarious. That device was just released.
Pixel/Nexus then. The reason Pixel is valid is because Google has been giving these devices (since you're not very good at reading: 'these devices' refers to 'Pixel/Nexus') good support for a long time.
> You're also wrong about "vastly decreased" performance.
I am not; it is widely documented.
> Apple is kicking Android's ass in this department, that's universally understood.
Did you read what I wrote? Did you comprehend? I haven't been comparing to all Android devices. I never did, never have, in none of my posts. Why would I? I know there are Android vendors who deliver shit support. What I am not saying is that all Android vendors do this. Motorola, for example, when still part of Google delivered good support, and all the examples I previously gave also still count.
> Another distorted lie-response to a claim I didn't make; I didn't say "with security updates". I said full compatibility with the fully-updated software.
Yes, I know you didn't claim that because you're unable to see I am the one who claimed that because your claim was, well, I'll be friendly: "inaccurate". I don't want full software support, I don't give a shit about full software support. I want security and reliability fixes, and, quite frankly it should fall under warranty. Nobody tosses their fridge, car, oven, PC after 2 or 3 years yet in handheld (smartphone/tablet) market this is somewhat normal. We agree there is a problem here, and on average compared to Android, yes Apple does better. At a premium price though.
> Apple is able to push out vital security updates WITHOUT doing a full software update
Yeah, with magic fairy tale patches. Get real. I don't have proof? All the vulnerabilities found and patched lately (good part of 2015, and all of 2016) in iOS 10 are not available in iOS 8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_8
"Support status Third-party application support only"
Great that means my mother's iPad from 2012 isn't supported anymore. Yeah, great software support...
> Yes, your bias is evident
Pot, meet kettle.
> Tragically what you're missing here is that locked-down nature also makes the devices secure.
My Android phone is not rooted, and I'm talking about locked down in the sense that I am not able to replace the hardware. In the sense that I'm more or less leasing the device since I am not allowed or easily able to get root if I desire. In the sense that an American company is putting their values on me as an European which means: violence is good, sex is bad. Fuck those values, I decide what is good and bad for me, my wife, and my children.
I'd also argue that every phone is fundamentally insecure to nation states if the attacker has physical access.
> You probably have no clue what it actually costs.
I do, I bought an iPhone SE for my mother and had the shop install a screen protector for her. While they were attaching it, I informed how much it'd cost to repair. Like I said, 160 EUR at minimum.
>> Lastly, it's just silly and inaccurate to call the iPhone "disposable", when in fact it leads the industry in terms of how long the product lasts, how long the OS is supported for older hardware, etc. By a wide margin.
That might be the case post iPhone 5 (maybe someone can verify this), but it wasn't the case before that. The last available update of iOS for every model pretty much made the iPhone 4S and earlier unusable to all but the most patient users, and that's with very little software installed.
Wrong; iOS 10 support does extend back to the iPhone 4S. Just Google it for 10 seconds and you will see that.
Further, this proves my argument, not yours. Even if you were right and the iPhone 5 was the earliest model now supported, that device is more than FOUR YEARS OLD. There are zero Android phones from 2012 which can run the latest Android version. In fact, I'm not sure that there are even any 2014 devices that can fully update right now.
Meanwhile Apple's still supporting a device from 2011, FIVE generations ago.
>> Wrong; iOS 10 support does extend back to the iPhone 4S. Just Google it for 10 seconds and you will see that.
You misunderstood my point. The last available operating system update on any 4S or earlier tends to be unusable because of performance issues. That's because each successive update adds bloat. I have a clean iPad 1, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S - all with the last available OS updates. They're barely usable as phones unless you have a lot of patience.
>> Further, this proves my argument, not yours. Even if you were right and the iPhone 5 was the earliest model now supported, that device is more than FOUR YEARS OLD. There are zero Android phones from 2012 which can run the latest Android version. In fact, I'm not sure that there are even any 2014 devices that can fully update right now.
Once again, you misunderstood my point. My mention of the iPhone 5 is as a placeholder for when the iPhone CPUs hit a maturity point in terms of performance where they would probably still be usable on the final version of the operating system that it will support.
>> Apple wins here, and it's not close.
Nobody's referring to this as contest, but ok, you can have that point if you want.
Also, once the market catches up to USB-C, which will take 12-18 months, you'll no longer need those adapters.
Lastly, it's just silly and inaccurate to call the iPhone "disposable", when in fact it leads the industry in terms of how long the product lasts, how long the OS is supported for older hardware, etc. By a wide margin.