BS: anyone got an old iPhone ?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone got an old iPhone ?
From: Mr Red
Date: 22 Dec 17 - 02:56 AM

Micro$soft do this on PCs by updating security.

Apple do it by original design.

The techno world are not convinced the Apple wheeze is all battery related. And they can hide behind all those apps (aka snoopware) you have added, running in the background.

Personally I think that is a Microsoft win there. We (I) buy into security. Do we buy into planned obsolescence?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone got an old iPhone ?
From: Janie
Date: 21 Dec 17 - 10:56 PM

I have an iPhone 5. It works faster than I do.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone got an old iPhone ?
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Dec 17 - 07:09 PM

Planned obsolescence is the quintessence of the Microsoft business model.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone got an old iPhone ?
From: Greg F.
Date: 21 Dec 17 - 06:04 PM

God Bless Unregulated Capitalism.

And God Save The Techno-Addicted.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone got an old iPhone ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Dec 17 - 06:04 PM

I notice that my iPhone 6S is regarded as an "older iPhone!"

Subject: RE: BS: anyone got an old iPhone ?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 21 Dec 17 - 05:58 PM

I read somewhere that if you replace the battery they speed up again.

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: anyone got an old iPhone ?
From: Stanron
Date: 21 Dec 17 - 04:35 PM

Surely they were designed to slow down to encourage the purchase of new items. Is it possible to replace the OS on older phones to make them more useable?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone got an old iPhone ?
From: DaveRo
Date: 21 Dec 17 - 04:00 PM

My wife has two old iPads and an iPhone 4 and it always puzzled me that they run so slow. The Safari browser, which is naturally slow, is glacially so on the oldest iPad. I used to put it down to the software - including iOS - getting bigger and needing more memory. But this perfectly explains it.

I'm not against them doing it, but they should have been open about it. Or made it an option - speed vs time between charges.

I have old Samsung and Nexus tablets on which I can run old or limited versions of Android and they go as quickly as they did when new. You can't do anything with an old iPad.

I've noticed also that some iOS apps are not updatable on her versions of iOS (none of my wife's devices can be updated beyong iOS 9) despite the changes not requiring extra hardware. I'm suspicious that Apple encourages them to do that.

Subject: BS: anyone got an old iPhone ?
From: Mr Red
Date: 21 Dec 17 - 03:33 PM

a snippet on the BBC TV News today was saying that Apple have had to admit that their phones s l o w d o w n   a s   t h e y a g e

deliberately, by design.

to preserve battery life (in the face of diminishing capacity) is quoted as the reason, but do we fully believe them?

And I noticed that second hand shops have far more iPads than Samsung. I thought it was because Apple evangelists are first adopters, whereas Samsungers buy to keep. Do I read that right?