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We are retiring our iPhones
February 12, 2016 at
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My wife and I have the iPhone 4S. The latest patch 9.2.1 (I think) fixed most of the problems that IOS9 introduced to our phones but they are still slow and lag at just about anything.
These phones are getting old anyway, so.
We want something newer and we are considering the BLU [amazon.com]
My question is "does anyone have any experience with the BLU Android phones. I checked the reviews forum but I didn't find anything there.
Thanks in advance
These phones are getting old anyway, so.
We want something newer and we are considering the BLU [amazon.com]
My question is "does anyone have any experience with the BLU Android phones. I checked the reviews forum but I didn't find anything there.
Thanks in advance
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But it's hard to argue with market share. iPhone is now the favorite of terrorists everywhere I hear.
But it's hard to argue with market share. iPhone is now the favorite of terrorists everywhere I hear.
Further, the point remains that the user was working with a 4 year old piece of hardware with software designed for iPhone 6s, a giant step ahead of where the 4s was. Could they possibly optimize it? Maybe. Should they? Probably not. That takes engineering time and resources away from improving both the hardware and software they release.
It's silly, in this day, to think that your smartphone isn't going to be obsolete after more than 4 years post-release. Many, many people replace their phones on yearly or bi-annual basis. Software constantly improves and adds new features and hardware has to improve along with it to support the new features. Older devices simply cannot be expected to constantly run new software perfectly; This is why you see older devices start falling off supported lists as the years go on.
Further, the point remains that the user was working with a 4 year old piece of hardware with software designed for iPhone 6s, a giant step ahead of where the 4s was. Could they possibly optimize it? Maybe. Should they? Probably not. That takes engineering time and resources away from improving both the hardware and software they release.
It's silly, in this day, to think that your smartphone isn't going to be obsolete after more than 4 years post-release. Many, many people replace their phones on yearly or bi-annual basis. Software constantly improves and adds new features and hardware has to improve along with it to support the new features. Older devices simply cannot be expected to constantly run new software perfectly; This is why you see older devices start falling off supported lists as the years go on.
But since you mentioned it many of the people who replace their phones so frequently do so because of the rapid obsolescence that is designed into them by all of the manufacturers. It was designed into the entire system to keep people buying more phones. They keep trickling out features that are just a little bit better and convince people that they have to keep up or they are missing out.
There is no "vehemently" defending them; I like conversation about it. It's just dumb to think one of the largest companies in the world would over look something so big during pre-qualification for release or during the design of the software in the first place. Clearly, they thought they had optimized the software enough for 4s.. but maybe they didn't. Either way, it's asinine to expect 4 year old hardware to work perfectly with brand new software. Sorry, that's just how things work.
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There is no "vehemently" defending them; I like conversation about it. It's just dumb to think one of the largest companies in the world would over look something so big during pre-qualification for release or during the design of the software in the first place. Clearly, they thought they had optimized the software enough for 4s.. but maybe they didn't. Either way, it's asinine to expect 4 year old hardware to work perfectly with brand new software. Sorry, that's just how things work.
So we went from "i'd be an idiot to think that they didnt test the software prior to release" to now "it's extremely unlikely that it's the case" that they didn't rest the software prior to release. Well they either tested it or they didn't. If they did test it before they released it, they're a bunch of asshole for releasing software that was known to brick phones.If they didn't test it prior to release, they're bigger idiots than those fanboys we talked about before.
It is pretty dumb to defend a company that advertises a software update for some hardware, regardless of how old it is, that, when installed, bricks said hardware. Who cares how old the hardware was, the software was advertised as for that hardware. And the software made the hardware completely unusable. You would have to be a complete moron to think that a completely dead piece of hardware is not vastly different from the issues of new software simply not working perfectly with old hardware. It is completely asinine to think that software that was advertised to work with specific hardware and then makes said hardware completely unusable, is anywhere close to acceptable. Sorry, that's just how things work.