Forced Obsolencense

[grog]

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.

[frenchgixxer]

Will be exactly the same with electric cars though maybe the option to keep paying to keep going

[froudy]

One of the reasons I've never bought into the I-Phone empire

[gsxbarmy]

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.

[grog]

Dave, maybe i need a spelling App🤣

[VladTepes]

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'.

[Speedy1959]

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.

[Mick_J]

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. 

[grog]

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.   

[Rynglieder]

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.

[Hooli]

I get given a work mobile every five or so years too. Somehow  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.