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Originally Posted by tophcfa
Apple is making sure my perfectly fine 6+ won’t be working perfectly fine very soon. Apparently an Apple phone’s useful life has nothing to do with how long the phone will last, but rather when Apple determines its time to force you to need a new phone. Pi$$es me off, I like to take very good care of our things and make them last as long as possible.
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Well, a couple of things. Which phone has a useful life of more than 6 years? Your iPhone 6 will not stop working one day because Apple updates stop being compatible with it. It will simply continue to do the same fine job it does now. I have an iPad 1 which came out in 2010 - eleven years ago. After a $90 battery replacement, it still works fine and does everything it did in 2010. I also have a 2021 iPad Pro because it does things the iPad 1 won't or can't do. My choice, not Apples.
And of course, Apple is in business to make money. One way to make money is to entice people to constantly upgrade their phones, by offering new features Apple hopes they will want. Apple is very good at that.
That's called capitalism. There are a LOT of other phone companies and anyone can buy a phone from any of them. That too is called captialism