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Actually, you can download the newer version of an app on a newer iphone and then download a version that works on the old iphone from the Purchased page. Appl

Actually, you can download the newer version of an app on a newer iphone and then download a version that works on the old iphone from the Purchased page. Apple makes it difficult but keeping my iPhone 5S is still going years after iOS 12 is no longer "cool"

KennyBlanken 4y ago
Why would you be keeping an 5S "still going" when you can buy an 8, SE, or an X/Xs/Xr, for a song and get vastly better performance, battery life, wifi and cellular? The A7 is dogshit slow - I have an iPad with the A7 (or maybe it's the A9) and it's unusably slow for even simple things like apps from newspapers and library e-reader apps; you can watch the page assemble. Even waking the iPad with the home button is slow. On my A11-powered phone these apps run smooth as butter. A 5S supports 11 of the LTE bands versus 24 bands of the 8. That alone is worth the upgrade, for the greater chance of being able to make or receive an important call. How much time are you wasting on silly work-arounds just to be a retro-tech hipster pretending it's cool to use a completely outdated and inferior-in-every-way piece of hardware for absolutely no reason?
- Xylakant 4y ago
  I stuck with an iPhone SE of the first generation until I really needed multi-sim this year. The form factor is great, no other phone is that small. Battery life was ok, too. Why not stick with hardware that does the job? If it works for him, great. Better for the environment, too. Cheaper as well.
- WrtCdEvrydy 4y ago
  What makes you think I don't own an iPhone XR? I have a lot of phones that I use for random projects and testing and sometimes I just need something I can strap to the side of a car with a suction cup to capture gyro data. If it falls off, it falls off. By the way, I wasn't the one telling me "this is the greatest iPhone yet" at the yearly capitalism conference.
2muchcoffeeman 4y ago
I'm impressed by how long you kept it going! My iPhone 5 and 6 were still going until last year.

KennyBlanken 4y ago

Why would you be keeping an 5S "still going" when you can buy an 8, SE, or an X/Xs/Xr, for a song and get vastly better performance, battery life, wifi and cellular? The A7 is dogshit slow - I have an iPad with the A7 (or maybe it's the A9) and it's unusably slow for even simple things like apps from newspapers and library e-reader apps; you can watch the page assemble. Even waking the iPad with the home button is slow. On my A11-powered phone these apps run smooth as butter. A 5S supports 11 of the LTE bands versus 24 bands of the 8. That alone is worth the upgrade, for the greater chance of being able to make or receive an important call. How much time are you wasting on silly work-arounds just to be a retro-tech hipster pretending it's cool to use a completely outdated and inferior-in-every-way piece of hardware for absolutely no reason?

Xylakant 4y ago
I stuck with an iPhone SE of the first generation until I really needed multi-sim this year. The form factor is great, no other phone is that small. Battery life was ok, too. Why not stick with hardware that does the job? If it works for him, great. Better for the environment, too. Cheaper as well.
WrtCdEvrydy 4y ago
What makes you think I don't own an iPhone XR? I have a lot of phones that I use for random projects and testing and sometimes I just need something I can strap to the side of a car with a suction cup to capture gyro data. If it falls off, it falls off. By the way, I wasn't the one telling me "this is the greatest iPhone yet" at the yearly capitalism conference.

2muchcoffeeman 4y ago

I'm impressed by how long you kept it going! My iPhone 5 and 6 were still going until last year.