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>Unless you routinely destroy your phone within two or three years, there’s no justification from a sustainability perspective to keep using Android phones. Of
by sigmar 5y ago
>Unless you routinely destroy your phone within two or three years, there’s no justification from a sustainability perspective to keep using Android phones. Of course, Apple is only good by comparison, as it also manufactures devices that are difficult to repair with an artificially short shelf life. It just happens to have a longer shelf life than Google.
Most of the iPhone users I see are using a phone they purchased within the past three years. Does the average iPhone get used for longer than the average Pixel?
- nickthegreek 5y agoYes, because that old iphone is handed down to a kid or sold to someone else. The android resale market was trash last I looked. I still have family using iPhone 7 pluses but the battery is showing wear (but thats pretty cheap to replace).
- whacim 5y agoI think iPhones get 6-7 years of support. I believe the new Pixel 6's are up to 5 years.
- zibzab 5y agoNote that that 6-7 year "support" includes updates that will make you hate your phone.
- null_object 5y ago> Note that that 6-7 year "support" includes updates that will make you hate your phone My kid is still using an iPhone 6s and loves it. It works perfectly.
- dont__panic 5y agoSure, back in the iPhone 4/4S days iOS 7 trashed older phones. Unusably bad. Should never have rolled out those UI updates if they couldn't perform well on older hardware. These days? I'm using a 2016 SE with iOS 15. Works great. I do not hate my phone. In fact, the small size, fingerprint sensor, and headphone jack make it a better buy than any modern smartphone. I can live without AI text recognition on my photos, which seems to be limited to newer phones. The app switcher, settings, browser, and everything else are still as snappy as the day I bought this thing. Only thing that doesn't run well? Spotify, which apparently doesn't bother to test their UI on small hardware (constantly clips links and text off the bottom of my screen), nor older CPUs (the app takes forever to start up, regularly freezes up when searching for songs, and can take anywhere from 1 second to 30 seconds to load even already downloaded albums). So uh... good on Apple. Shame on Spotify.
- mp9 5y ago
- null_object 5y ago> Most of the iPhone users I see… Instead of making knee-jerk anti-Apple assumptions, you might try to check some facts. edit: apparently the statistics I linked are behind a paywall, but the stats from the app I'm working on show me that approx 10% of users are on iPhones that are 7 years or older. https://www.statista.com/statistics/626631/smartphone-market-share-by-device-worldwide/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/626631/smartphone-market...
- sigmar 5y agoJust speaking from my own experience and asking if my view is not representative. That link just goes to a paywall for me.
- chomp 5y agoWe can't tell because Apple is a little opaque with the devices that are in the wild, and Pixels are such a small slice of the entire Android population. What we have are only third party accounts of the iPhone population, e.g. https://deviceatlas.com/blog/most-popular-iphones https://deviceatlas.com/blog/most-popular-iphones According to that (maybe selection-biased) source, it looks like the most popular iPhone is the one released the same year the first Pixel was released. We can't conclude anything about which is used longer, but Android app updates are required to target API level 30 I think for Android, which is no longer supported on the first Pixel, so there's probably a pressure that urges users off of that phone. I'd be surprised if percentage-wise, a larger share of Pixel users are on the original Pixel than iPhone users on iPhone 7.
- mantas 5y agoMy iPhone 6 held up fine for 6 years and was still getting security updates last fall.