Retards who can't even analyze basic business practices are the ones wanting a centralized economy. Guess how that will turn out.
iPhones are probably the longest lasting phones in the market, because a) Apple wants to maintain status as a luxury brand and b) huge chunk of their income comes from the Appstore and all the other services they provide thus they want their devices to stay in usable state for long as possible
@hj
5 years of software updates with the wast majority of features supported across all devices.
Obviously the locked down nature of Apple devices puts some asterisks on it, but expecteding latest software to run on ancient hardware is something only retards and FOSS autists expect.
Even the aforementioned iPhones or smartphones in general - companies expect you to buy shiny new phone every once in a while, and people do, even if their old phone is still more than capable of its tasks.
@hj
Yeah, precisely. Just selling phone after phone is not a sustainable business model. That's why subscription services are becoming increasingly more common because they are much more reliable and that's why Apple has a lot of them and that's why they are releasing "budget" versions of their products to get more people into them.
If you buy a phone, you are still able to use it without updating for the same stuff you were always able to even when they are no longer supported. Maybe excluding all the CDMA carrier exclusive phones from the 00s, some of which died in a few months.
I don't see how it's reasonable to want new features on old phones (and by old I don't mean 2 years), especially iPhones since those get them for a long time and have high end specs on launch. Only now are phones at the point spec wise where the performance increases are no longer noticeable for day to day use.
Yes, the locked downess of especially Apple devices is absolute bullshit and their repair practices too, but normal people don't want to install custom software on their phones.
