Ah yes, Apple. A company that is famously concerned about the longevity and durability of their products.
To be fair, their software/security support is longer than any others that I’m aware of. They beat out even Samsung in that regard.
Only one that’s close/better is Fairphone and they still have a looong way to go before they can compete in terms of quality and audience.But I agree that their physical durability and repairability could seriously improve.
Well, supporting also means, not making older phones slower with new updates on purpose.
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Do lightning cables still break if you look at them funny? I remember all the “hack” videos that involved taping a spring to the end of them…
My lightning cables, some of them are already a bit old, were bitten by my cats when they were kittens. All of them still work fine (I’m not using the ones that were bitten for safety…).
How did you turn your cables into kittens?
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Like how my iPhone 4S became unusable after the iOS 7 “upgrade?”
Wasn’t Apple accused of intentionally slowing down older phones as a tactic to get consumers to upgrade? IIRC they paid a huge settlement in court over it. Which I guess isn’t necessarily an admission of guilt, but it doesnt look very good.
The issue really is less “evil” than that. They keep adding features running in the background which add to the load on a CPU. Combine that with some of those new features running better with newer versions of microcode and it quickly makes it appear as though they are intentionally slowing it down, while in reality they are just adding more shit to the system to run on top of your day to day workload.
They were throttling the processor so it didn’t ask for more power than the aging battery could deliver. If they didn’t do this on aging batteries your phone would just shut off. They got busted for not telling people clearly that this is what was happening.
Most major brands were accused at some time of doing something similar sadly.
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Never really had an issue with iPhone outside of the glass screen, but more recent Gorilla Glass offerings have mostly fixed that issue for me. I do love what Fairphone is doing.
God I want a fairphone so bad. Too bad they aren’t available in Canada yet.
To be fair their products are known to last a lot.
Which company the one know to have a lot of problems with amd dedicated gpu or the company know to kernel panic the entire phone os only because the iphone 11 mobo can’t detect a microphone or the one know selling computer for more than 900€ with soldered flash memories that give a use limit to the hardware making it almost a paperweight and to resolve this issues you need to desolder the old chips and solder new one?
Yeah… so? There are no perfect things, and other brands also have hardware and software issues. Don’t see your point here.
You can’t say durable and apple in the same phrase, literally most of the repairs done on arm macbooks are done to resolve the flash memory from shorting to ground, and that make the entire pc not turn on.
- also have hardware and software issues
At least on other devices that are not iphone you can install another software
Is that an observation or a threat?
iPhones aren’t exactly known for durability…
Most Motorola and Samsung batteries are completely removable but there’s something in the way to prevent it - glue, a sticker, a couple of screws. I doubt removing those measures will reduce the durability of the phones.
Is that an observation or a threat?
Haha, exactly, sounds like the mafia.
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Pioneer of the glass backed phone, bezelless display and camera protrusion is lecturing us on durability? Hmmm
Most people don’t value their own money and drag them through the floor lol
I guess saying that your product will be shittier is normal these days.
Maybe if iPhones “decrease” in durability, maybe fewer people will purchase them?
Oh no, think about the yacht money!
