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The iphone 4s is 5 years old and runs the latest OS and takes a few seconds and $40 to replace the battery. My ipad2 is still working perfectly. Battery lasts d
by merpnderp 11y ago
The iphone 4s is 5 years old and runs the latest OS and takes a few seconds and $40 to replace the battery. My ipad2 is still working perfectly. Battery lasts days and runs all the things it used to and then some. Fragility is not the same as planned obsolescence.
- nprz 11y agoI owned an iPhone 4 up until a couple months ago. It worked fine for most of its life but near the last months most apps on it became unusable. Everything just ran so slowly. I remember google maps being particularly bad, the app would run incredibly slow and eventually crash about 30 seconds into using it basically every time I opened it up. You could still use the phone I suppose, but it would require a good amount of patience.
- digi_owl 11y agoWould not surprise me that this happens because the apps expect more RAM to be on hand, and so are not as carefully optimized for low RAM circumstances. I am seeing something similar over at Android. Where earlier versions of the Play store app worked without a hitch on my aging tablet, now it seems to crash left and right whenever i want to look at longer lists of search results or similar. And this seems to happen when it tries to load the app icons or similarly asynchronously, meaning that i can enter the search, get a list of results, and then see the app stutter and crash as it tries to load the graphics.
- amscanne 11y agoThe iPhone 4s is only four years old. The mandatory (1) software updates (specifically iOS8) have basically made it perform half as well as it did when it was sold, I don't think it's a shining example. (1) If you want support.