Perfectly working I Phone 7. No more updates. Hate that crap, now need to spend bucks to upgrade to new phone. Ill hang in as long as i can, im sure things will stop working.
Will be exactly the same with electric cars though maybe the option to keep paying to keep going
One of the reasons I've never bought into the I-Phone empire :onya:
Quote from: grog on Monday, 19 September 2022, 06:10 PM
Perfectly working I Phone 7. No more updates. Hate that crap, now need to spend bucks to upgrade to new phone. Ill hang in as long as i can, im sure things will stop working.
Obsolescence will more be defined by the apps you use
@grog and how long they are supported.
Dave, maybe i need a spelling App🤣
Yeah shits me. I had a GPS thing with 'lifetime' maps.
Turns out its not the lifetime of me, or the device, it's the lifetime of 'when the company gives a fuck'.
I have an iPhone 6S Plus which I have no intention of "updating"!
I bought it a couplke of years ago as "New Old Stock" which meant I got a relativr Bargain.
I wont be too sorry for the lack of "Updates"..
As for apps.. I very rarely install them.. What I need or actually use are on the phone now so I dont give 2 hoots if new apps dont support my phone model.
:smoke:
Happens with android phones as well. I had a perfectly serviceable android that slowly over time stopped being supported, I got messages telling my app was too old, or app unsupported. I could not get a newer version of android installed so had to buy a new phone. :furious:
I like your thoughts Speedy, problem is, my work gets sent thru Android phone, they update all the time, if i dont, doesnt match, no jobs. My Apple stuff is just personal phones, guess i could get away with no updates. I never want to really. My PC is windows, same story, like to be at present figuration. Good thing were all different. :grin:
I'm afraid forced obsolencence is truly a "thing".
A company mobile was given to me for most of my working life so I never worried much about it. Having retired I had to buy my own, so I purchased the cheapest Samsung device I could on the basis that it would have to be regarded as disposable - I wouldn't dream of splashing out for a high end product.
The Yoof of today seem happy to enter into contracts for about £70 a month for the latest and greatest - this might be part of the reason that they find that they can't afford a house.
I get given a work mobile every five or so years too. Somehow :whatever: it seems the work SIM falls into my old handset & my personal SIM goes into the new one from work every time.
No idea how that happens.