Throwing away a perfectly good device just because they want to sell you a new one seems like such a waste to me. My last iPhone was out of support and had the

Throwing away a perfectly good device just because they want to sell you a new one seems like such a waste to me. My last iPhone was out of support and had the replacement battery going bad before I went to the trouble of getting a new one. The worst thing is it was perfectly functional (aside from the dodgy battery which could have been replaced again) and I would still be using it if there was an option to not become part of some random botnet. All I really need is to make a phone call once in a while, check the emails and surf the interwebs — don’t need a whole lot of processing power to do that. But now everyone and their dog makes you use their crappy app if you want to use their services and they only support “supported” devices (even though they could easily run on the older hardware) so you’re boned if you want some semblance of a modern life. Don’t even get me started on how long I use laptops which can be upgraded virtually forever…