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Part of it is that android is used way more often, on very old hardware that is long discarded by apple users. Part of not (only) catering to the wealthy.

by ibotty 9y ago

xkpd3 9y ago
Average device age is more than 3 years. Average!
kalleboo 9y ago
In my experience iPhone hardware doesn't get discarded but handed down to grandparents, children etc and continues to live a long life. Do you have a source for your device age numbers or are you just making up stereotypes?
- merpnderp 9y ago
  My experience too. I gave my 5s to a friend when I got my 6s, and she was overwhelmed and said it was the nicest phone she'd ever owned. That was 2 years ago and she has no intention of replacing it anytime soon as it still runs fine and will get iOS 11. My iPad 2 is still going strong. I don't have a single iOS device that wasn't used 4+ years by someone close to me, and I started with the 4s.
- rimliu 9y ago
  Yep. Every single iPhone I got continued its life in the possession of someone else.
- Theodores 9y ago
  Meanwhile my Nexus 7 is in a drawer with a cracked screen alongside the remains of the Nexus 4 that stopped retaining the SIM. Then there is a defunct Moto G that I washed. Either Android gizmo toys are poor quality or a common use case for Android could be to use it until the gadget is dead. Perhaps Apple owners buy more shiny and have more perfectly usable gadgets to give away. Perhaps Apple users are more fashion conscious, wealthier and keener than Android users to have the latest features. The used car market can be similar.
  - photojosh 9y ago
    iPhone screens crack and smash just as much as any phone, if not more. I've cracked one, my wife's done 3. (!) But you can almost always get them repaired for significantly less than the resale value of the phone, so it's worthwhile to do so.
simonh 9y ago
If you look through the model breakdown about a quarter of those devices are 4 years old or more. Many of those are iPads, so it looks like iPads generally last longer than iPhones, supporting the theory that slowing iPad sales are partly due to long device lifespans. Actually this may explain why more iPads are on older OS versions that iPhones - more of them are older devices with insufficient RAM to run recent OS versions. So this data is strong evidence for the opposite of what you're saying. iOS devices have such long lifespans that they actually skew OS version adoption rates. You don't see that clearly for Android because even current devices on the market often come with several years old OS versions so you can't reliably infer released OS version from device recency as you can for iOS.

Part of it is that android is used way more often, on very old hardware that is long discarded by apple users. Part of not (only) catering to the wealthy.

by ibotty 9y ago

Part of it is that android is used way more often, on very old hardware that is long discarded by apple users. Part of not (only) catering to the wealthy.

xkpd3 9y ago

Average device age is more than 3 years. Average!

kalleboo 9y ago

In my experience iPhone hardware doesn't get discarded but handed down to grandparents, children etc and continues to live a long life. Do you have a source for your device age numbers or are you just making up stereotypes?

merpnderp 9y ago
My experience too. I gave my 5s to a friend when I got my 6s, and she was overwhelmed and said it was the nicest phone she'd ever owned. That was 2 years ago and she has no intention of replacing it anytime soon as it still runs fine and will get iOS 11. My iPad 2 is still going strong. I don't have a single iOS device that wasn't used 4+ years by someone close to me, and I started with the 4s.
rimliu 9y ago
Yep. Every single iPhone I got continued its life in the possession of someone else.
Theodores 9y ago
Meanwhile my Nexus 7 is in a drawer with a cracked screen alongside the remains of the Nexus 4 that stopped retaining the SIM. Then there is a defunct Moto G that I washed. Either Android gizmo toys are poor quality or a common use case for Android could be to use it until the gadget is dead. Perhaps Apple owners buy more shiny and have more perfectly usable gadgets to give away. Perhaps Apple users are more fashion conscious, wealthier and keener than Android users to have the latest features. The used car market can be similar.
- photojosh 9y ago
  iPhone screens crack and smash just as much as any phone, if not more. I've cracked one, my wife's done 3. (!) But you can almost always get them repaired for significantly less than the resale value of the phone, so it's worthwhile to do so.

simonh 9y ago

If you look through the model breakdown about a quarter of those devices are 4 years old or more. Many of those are iPads, so it looks like iPads generally last longer than iPhones, supporting the theory that slowing iPad sales are partly due to long device lifespans. Actually this may explain why more iPads are on older OS versions that iPhones - more of them are older devices with insufficient RAM to run recent OS versions. So this data is strong evidence for the opposite of what you're saying. iOS devices have such long lifespans that they actually skew OS version adoption rates. You don't see that clearly for Android because even current devices on the market often come with several years old OS versions so you can't reliably infer released OS version from device recency as you can for iOS.