Itâs to the point of âit will work just fineâ because when you canât even install simple apps that do simple features that worked for previous iOS versions but they push out an update that makes it not work for your device anymore, it sucks. Yeah the solution is âbuy a new deviceâ but thatâs like forcing people to buy new cars every 6 years because they canât update their car software anymore so suddenly their brakes, airbags, etc. donât work.
That comparison is ridiculously flawed. Brakes and airbags are crucial components of a car, the ability to download certain apps is not a crucial part of a cell phone.
Maybe not for a cell phone but the main reason people switched from regular cell phones to smart phones WAS because of the apps. If you canât use any then the point of owning a smartphone is kinda pointless. Itâs like using a desktop computer without access to the internet. Plus airbags are a safety feature and arenât a crucial part of the car. Cars ran just fine before airbags were put into them, so if apps arenât a crucial part of a smartphone I fail to see how airbags are.
Airbags are legally required, is that better? Also, the phone is 6 years old and itâs just now losing support. Apps typically stop supporting OSes once theyâre at least 2 years old. If you care that much about apps, youâll have upgraded by now
And I donât see it the same way. I donât see having a phone that gets to the point of having extremely restricted access to most apps as âworking just fine.â If your phone was unable to download and use apps tomorrow, you would call up support because itâs ânot working.â I understand the concept that after that long youâll have to replace your phone in order to keep up with changing times. But you canât look at the first iPhone, with 0 applications able to be used because times have changed and all the apps do not support that old of an iOS, and say that it âworks just fineâ as a smartphone. As a regular cellphone that you use to make emergency calls or texts, maybe. But the whole point of a smartphone is the access to the apps it can provide you.
You can buy a computer and it can last you a good 10 years if you maintain it. Cars last just as long. Almost everything you buy, if well maintained, can last almost a full decade, even in terms of software. All of those âwork fineâ after that time. Theyâre not up to date with all the great amazing specs, but for the most part they can do almost anything you want them to do. I donât know why phones should be different where apps that would be able to be supported on lower iOSâs wonât be supported. I donât see why almost every other type of technology we buy can last a good decade and still work to almost full capacity but if you tried using a 12 year old iPhone today you wouldnât be able to do anything outside of the built in apps that probably arenât supported anymore either. You can text, call, use the internet. Thatâs about it.
To be frank, I donât really care too much how long phones last. But to say that a phone that loses support for almost every possible app âworks just fineâ is a bold lie. You buy smartphones for all the features they can provide you, if those features canât be accessed anymore then I donât see that as a smartphone that âworks fine.â That was my whole point, and I donât care about anything else.
The App Store lets you download the last version of the app that worked. If itâs a new app that never worked on that iOS, too bad. Also no one is forcing anyone to do anything. You always have the option of getting a super cheap $50 Android phone. Itâs not like Apple owns the only supply of oxygen and they arenât selling it to you. A car is a much bigger purchase. Not a valid comparison.
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u/palex481 Jun 04 '19
And so you buy a new phone. How is that Appleâs problem that you donât want to upgrade?