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When I had an iPhone it stopped being usable after 2 years and the last 2 non-Apple phones I had lasted 3 and 4 years and both got replaced on my terms, while s
by gdulli 9y ago
When I had an iPhone it stopped being usable after 2 years and the last 2 non-Apple phones I had lasted 3 and 4 years and both got replaced on my terms, while still usable. You can't just handwave and declare that Apple doesn't do a worse job than others when the evidence is mounting that it does.
- sjwright 9y agoThe same would have been true if your first phones were Android and your most recent ones were iPhone. In other words, your experience has nothing to do with Android vs iPhone, rather that earlier devices simply didn't have the same amount of resource headroom as more recent ones. Ever since the iPhone 4S, they've been usable for at least 3 years before expectations catch up to them. And now I think since the 6S and SE—which have the same hardware generation—iPhones can claim to have 4+ year lifetimes. (At 3.5 years old, the iPhone 6 is still a great device today, particularly with a cheap battery replacement.)