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It's interesting because, even though I make the conscious effort to keep my iPhone 5, I thought MOST people upgraded? Reading through a lot of these comments,

It's interesting because, even though I make the conscious effort to keep my iPhone 5, I thought MOST people upgraded? Reading through a lot of these comments, it seems that's not the case. That's surprising but comforting. Having teenage daughters I really started to get a kind of inferiority complex. Thinking, "Man, am I being unreasonably stubborn here?" But it always just seemed like the phone worked, so why upgrade? It does make me wonder, however, what's next for Samsung and Apple? Is it that there are still more than enough people upgrading to make plenty of money? Or will they have to come up with new non-smartphone products in the future?

fpoling 9y ago
Friend of mine and his wife also keep their iPhone 5 from 2012. Fro my impression going to few random sites they work nicely. They changed battery only once. So I am really consider getting iPhone SE as my next phone when the current 2 years old Nexus 5 breaks or will not be supported...
- StudentStuff 9y ago
  The iPhone SE is a solid device, perhaps the only reason to stick with Android is if you need faster speeds or notably better coverage on T-Mobile (which requires Band 71) as Apple's LTE modems aren't great right now.
WrtCdEvrydy 9y ago
In the past, new phones had great improvement, now it's more of a small incremental improvement.
graeme 9y ago
I personally went from original in 2008, to iphone 4 in 2010, to iphone 6 in 2015, to iphone 8 in 2017. I would have kept using the old phone in every case, but: they each became too slow with os updates. In the case of the 6 I think it was exacerbated by battery issued. So probably you've taken better care of your battery? (Or stayed off ios 11) But, if you look at that record, it is: 1. Not an upgrade every to every model 2. Still a fair number of sales for apple I skipped the 3g, 4s, 5, 5s, 6s, 7

fpoling 9y ago

Friend of mine and his wife also keep their iPhone 5 from 2012. Fro my impression going to few random sites they work nicely. They changed battery only once. So I am really consider getting iPhone SE as my next phone when the current 2 years old Nexus 5 breaks or will not be supported...

StudentStuff 9y ago
The iPhone SE is a solid device, perhaps the only reason to stick with Android is if you need faster speeds or notably better coverage on T-Mobile (which requires Band 71) as Apple's LTE modems aren't great right now.

WrtCdEvrydy 9y ago

In the past, new phones had great improvement, now it's more of a small incremental improvement.

graeme 9y ago

I personally went from original in 2008, to iphone 4 in 2010, to iphone 6 in 2015, to iphone 8 in 2017. I would have kept using the old phone in every case, but: they each became too slow with os updates. In the case of the 6 I think it was exacerbated by battery issued. So probably you've taken better care of your battery? (Or stayed off ios 11) But, if you look at that record, it is: 1. Not an upgrade every to every model 2. Still a fair number of sales for apple I skipped the 3g, 4s, 5, 5s, 6s, 7