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Especially when the iPhone's cost is calculated over the lifetime of the device and the quality of the hardware. Apple's latest iOS version 9.3 just dropped. A

Especially when the iPhone's cost is calculated over the lifetime of the device and the quality of the hardware. Apple's latest iOS version 9.3 just dropped. And the 5 year old iPhone 4s along with every iPad except the original just got that update. What other device would be safe to use with personal information and be just as usable after 5 years? At the original full price that comes to around $80/year. With the additional street cred of owning an iPhone?

tdkl 11y ago
Sorry, but claiming 4 year old devices are usable with iOS 9 is a joke. The rule of a thumb with iPhones is that you update n+1 version your phone shipped with. Anything more kills the performance to almost a standstill. I won't go into the debate if it's intentionally or not, but as sure isn't with much added value.
- merpnderp 11y ago
  You say that, but the guy sitting right behind me happily used his 4s until last month. And he's a heavy app user, installing all sorts of stuff, from flight tracking, weird weather apps, bird watching, whatever. I'm not sure if that counts as a joke from where I'm from.
  - tdkl 11y ago
    There, a test on the 4S : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J6R0NnqOzc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J6R0NnqOzc If you look at it this way - all that's changed are "clients", the data displayed is the same for both. But only on one phone the system experience is enjoyable. I guess Schiller forgot about that they once had a good optimized mobile OS.
sz4kerto 11y ago
One of my friend is not particularly well off, to say the least. Until a month or so ago he had been using a HTC Desire that he got for free from somebody. He used email, mapping, alarm clock, calendar, instant messaging. On a 5 year old phone.
- merpnderp 11y ago
  And he was using an unpatched, unsupported OS, with a myriad of security vulnerabilities, on a phone that offered him no social capital and advertised his poverty. I'm not saying it is right or wrong that someone's phone should stand in as a status symbol, but it does.
  - sigmar 11y ago
    That isn't necessarily true. there are cyanogenmod 13 builds for the desire HD on xda
  - 13of40 11y ago
    "a phone that offered him no social capital and advertised his poverty" Wow. So iPhones are basically diamond engagement rings for men? At least you're being honest...
miguelrochefort 11y ago
> street cred wat

tdkl 11y ago

Sorry, but claiming 4 year old devices are usable with iOS 9 is a joke. The rule of a thumb with iPhones is that you update n+1 version your phone shipped with. Anything more kills the performance to almost a standstill. I won't go into the debate if it's intentionally or not, but as sure isn't with much added value.

merpnderp 11y ago
You say that, but the guy sitting right behind me happily used his 4s until last month. And he's a heavy app user, installing all sorts of stuff, from flight tracking, weird weather apps, bird watching, whatever. I'm not sure if that counts as a joke from where I'm from.
- tdkl 11y ago
  There, a test on the 4S : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J6R0NnqOzc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J6R0NnqOzc If you look at it this way - all that's changed are "clients", the data displayed is the same for both. But only on one phone the system experience is enjoyable. I guess Schiller forgot about that they once had a good optimized mobile OS.

sz4kerto 11y ago

One of my friend is not particularly well off, to say the least. Until a month or so ago he had been using a HTC Desire that he got for free from somebody. He used email, mapping, alarm clock, calendar, instant messaging. On a 5 year old phone.

merpnderp 11y ago
And he was using an unpatched, unsupported OS, with a myriad of security vulnerabilities, on a phone that offered him no social capital and advertised his poverty. I'm not saying it is right or wrong that someone's phone should stand in as a status symbol, but it does.
- sigmar 11y ago
  That isn't necessarily true. there are cyanogenmod 13 builds for the desire HD on xda
- 13of40 11y ago
  "a phone that offered him no social capital and advertised his poverty" Wow. So iPhones are basically diamond engagement rings for men? At least you're being honest...

miguelrochefort 11y ago

> street cred wat