Re:iPhone 7
by anonred on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @06:33PM
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You're ignoring the fact that Apple depends on a certain level of customer satisfaction to keep profits up.
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The rest of the phone is "good enough" so that people don't take the risk to jump to a different OS environment on the next iteration.
Plus, Apple always promises the new iPhone will fix everything you didn't like about the previous one and people eat that up.
The problem with that hypothesis is that a non-trivial number of iPhone customers (that I anecdotely know) tend to upgrade every few years, not every iteration. If a device is "good enough" to last 2+ years, I'd say Apple is doing a decent enough job at keeping their users happy.