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This is great news. Reduce e-waste by using your phone until it gives up.
Interesting to see even with 24% YoY decline for smartphones, Android shipments fell 38% vs 6% for iPhone. Apple has completely gotten the hardware and software integration right to create whole better than the sum of its parts.
In my country, you don't get free upgrades anymore. You have to put them on a plan that adds a bunch to your phone bill every month. I know I haven't even considered replacing a perfectly good phone after that (which is probably what things should be like anyway, but still....)
Less benefit to upgrading every 12-24 months + Samsung copying apple every turn.
Unlike Apple, Android phones do not kill their battery life after 3 years. On the contrary, I swapped my S9's battery myself and have it a longer life as a secondary phone for traveling or backup. With the restored battery that old exynos chip is still good enough to run most apps to my satisfaction. Even my newer one is not a current gen model. For me, the only reason to upgrade anymore is security updates and most users don't even care about that. Okay, maybe the cameras still keep getting better but only marginally.
Any battery will be degraded after 3 years of daily use, no matter the brand. And if you are saying this in the sense that apple slows down phones after a while, it's just not true anymore, they profit more from having you inside the ecosystem than risk you switching to android (which is also why they offer so many years of updates). I've had an iPhone 8 up until 2021 and it was still very fast and had (relatively) good battery life. Even when I turned it back on a few months ago and updated everything to ios 16, it was still working just fine on battery and performance department
And don't get me wrong, I am not an apple fanboy (anymore). I have an S23 and I won't even consider switching until Apple allows me to sideload stuff on iOS, I just don't like false information
Yeah I meant the intentional degradation. Good to know they don't do that anymore.