Comments on: Does Apple intentionally slow down your phone to make you want to buy a new one? YES it turns out! https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/09/does-apple-intentionally-slow-down-your-phone-to-make-you-want-to-buy-a-new-one/ Wed, 20 Dec 2017 20:09:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/09/does-apple-intentionally-slow-down-your-phone-to-make-you-want-to-buy-a-new-one/#comment-451585 Mon, 09 Oct 2017 17:48:50 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=9452#comment-451585 Android phones are “famous’ for slowing down after a bit — usually two years. Factory resets sometimes help, but with some of the manufacturers the issue comes down to several things:

* modifying the generic Android system update to fit their own design is time consuming and expensive (in their minds) so many phones only get 1 major system update during their usable lifetimes
* every manufacturer signs its own contract with the parts suppliers, and a big hangup is the chip maker, often Qualcomm. The chipmaker has to modify some of its stuff each time a big update rolls out, and the word is that they routinely refuse to commit to more than one big system update themselves for all but the largest OEMs.

Sucks, but that’s how it works. Apple, in charge of every aspect of its process, doesn’t have those issues and that’s one of their biggest and best features.

I don’t care about the big system updates — I try to get phones at least one year behind the latest and greatest, because you can get good deals. I wish security updates were more frequent.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/09/does-apple-intentionally-slow-down-your-phone-to-make-you-want-to-buy-a-new-one/#comment-451581 Mon, 09 Oct 2017 17:20:26 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=9452#comment-451581 Yeah, that’s pretty much how I drive my old car. I go slow, avoid using breaks, don’t turn too quickly, no acceleration. Works great! 🙂

]]> By: RickA https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/09/does-apple-intentionally-slow-down-your-phone-to-make-you-want-to-buy-a-new-one/#comment-451580 Mon, 09 Oct 2017 17:12:03 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=9452#comment-451580 I still use the iPhone 4S, which cannot even be upgraded to IOS 10 or 11.

It works fine.

I turn off location services, wifi, bluetooth and unload apps as soon as I am done and my battery seems to last days longer than my children’s newer iPhones.

I admit, I use my phone a lot less than my children.

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