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Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

5 years is pretty stingy, and more importantly quite deadly for the environment.

[–] countablenewt@allthingstech.social 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@FarraigePlaisteach @return2ozma 5 years is way longer than most people keep their phones, and it’s also “at least” Apple has been known to push updates to older devices way past that

An update to iOS 15 came out not too long ago iirc

Plus there are so many variables that go into whether a device will be able to actually run a particular version of software so giving a hard commitment at all is going to be conservative

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When updates gradually make those devices rage-inducingly slow, it’s inevitable that people will dispose of them. It really is a stretch to even say that they are “supporting” them.

Please don’t absolve mega corporations of their responsibility here.

[–] countablenewt@allthingstech.social 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@FarraigePlaisteach 99 times out of 100 the reason phones are getting slow is not updates, its a failing battery

Hold corporations accountable, but also don’t just shit on things to shit on them, device support isn’t that simple

[–] countablenewt@allthingstech.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@FarraigePlaisteach nuance is not inversely proportional to market cap

[–] lorenac@mas.to 1 points 5 months ago

@countablenewt @FarraigePlaisteach Yeah people really need to stop unfairly blaming Apple all the time. They do far better for device support than Android junk phones.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

As opposed to the practices of which company?

Giving only a few years of support is not a great practice, but that’s the world we live in. If we had fully open source phones, then the community could provide the updates for much longer, but there’s still a pretty long way to go in that regard.