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Workers Make Smartphones. They Design Them, Assemble them and Sell them. Capitalism stole the credit and makes them worse
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this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2024
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I think the brand and model makes a big difference too. Many older iPhones and Pixels still work great.
And yet their cadence of pushing out new phones every year to replace old ones hasn't changed.
They won't get the message unless people stop buying. If they make new things every year, and people actually buy them and turn them into the richest company on the planet, then they've got a strategy that works great for them. Stop buying things just because they exist. The companies suck and the people support them.
Apple is always pushing iOS updates that eventually make older hardware crawl to a halt.
Would be nice if they back ported security fixes, but instead they’re just like fuck it, here’s a whole new iOS your old phone can’t really run.
That’s not even close to true. I’m on a six year old iPhone with the latest version of iOS and it works amazingly.
Yeah, I can't blame people for engrained/culturally accepted consuming habits. That said, I find conversations around trade-in value of iPhones/Pixels/Watches to be so difficult. Like, do you really think you're coming out ahead of Apple or Google on these deals? Just another drug in the ante.
I agree that system change is needed and all blame cannot be laid on individuals. These companies do pour billions into exploiting everything they can about human psychology.
I'm still using my pixel 3a, which I bought in 2019. It is the 64 GB variant (I think base was 32 GB) and cost me $340. It's still doing its phone thing pretty well, but it can get a bit warm scrolling the modern bloated web without an ad-blocker running. I really don't see a reason to upgrade right now.
My wife has a 6a and I recently had to open it up to replace it's internal speaker that failed.
I was using a Pixel 3a up until recently too, it still works fine but I got a used 6 pro from a relative so I chucked GrapheneOS on it and started using that.
Not all. I have a Pixel 2 and Google royally screwed it over with lhe last update before EOL. If you draw too much power, the phone will spontaneously reboot. For example, when using the camera when the battery is below 50%, or when playing video at full brightness and volume, etc. They acknowledged the problem but refused to fix it because the phone is EOL
My partner's iPhone is six years old. We're going to replace it soon because it stopped receiving security updates. She'd keep using it until it completely bricked otherwise.
I appreciate they're some of the best around for longevity but I wish they'd push further. I have a Fairphone and their firmware support is the same so it's frustrating that there's not really an alternative here.
I wish more devices would move in the Framework laptop direction, where hardware can be upgraded and old hardware can be repurposed.
The closest I've seen to that would be the pinephone or librem 5, but they have their own issues.
iPhone X? I’m on an XS Max and it’s six years old, still getting not only security updates but full versions of iOS.