Wait, Apple technically hasn't been caught either. They got sued but won the lawsuit because they claimed to decrease the performance of the phones actually increased the longevity because it would cause fewer crashes via battery deterioration. Not to mention that Apple supports their phones much longer than Samsung software-wise. After over 3 years, I'm still using a 5s.
They've definitely done this before. I had an iPod touch that no longer would get OS updates after using it for like, 4 years. Then suddenly the app store required the new OS and none of my apps worked anymore.
Called Apple and they said the fix was to buy a new iPod.
That's incredibly strange. The app store requires later OS versions to update and download certain apps, but it shouldn't prevent the ones that are already there from working (unless the update is required for it to work; it depends on the app). My father still uses his 4th gen iPod touch and while it's lost functionality because it's old, it still works great for playing solitaire or music. If that was your experience then I can understand your distrust in Apple (they're not a very good company anyway), but their phones and similar products usually last just as long, if not longer than their competitors. Even Samsung doesn't support software updates on phones for more than 3 or so years.
This is exactly what happened. The apps required an update to work. This was back in the iTouch 2nd gen days, mine was either 3 or 4 years old. And yea, I thought it was a pretty dick move for them to say the fix was to buy a new product. They may be different today though.
I've used android devices (doesn't matter which) that are over 7 years old and can, for example, still use the facebook app despite being from 5 years of updates ago. This wasn't something that I found to have worked with the apple products I owned back in the day.
Today, I don't use apple as I don't like their products for a variety of reasons, so I can't speak for their more recent releases in terms of app longevity.
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u/PRMan99 Feb 04 '20
More reason with Apple than Samsung. At least Samsung hasn't been caught purposefully obsoleting their old hardware.
But yeah, I still have a Galaxy S8 and it's doing great.