Re:Apple now strives to design and build products that last ...
by birksherty on Monday September 17, 2018 @01:03PM
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I have an 6 year old cheap Chinese phone which I use as a podcast player now. It has removable battery. I have dropped it many times on cement floor without breaking anything. Old Nokia phones also didn't break so easily and repairable. We still have some working Nokia which were repaired in authorised service centre. So I don't know why people are saying you can only choose one of them.
Re:Apple now strives to design and build products that last ...
by prepend on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @06:51AM
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I’m certainly not saying you can only choose reliability or durability. I don’t think there’s a fundamental exclusivity between them. But practically, I don’t know of a phone that does both.
Certainly some old phones will work. And likely even still work as a phone. My point was that iPhones are more likely to still run and be useful based on their market price. The Nexus 5X price isn’t zero, someone still uses them. But it’s lower.
It’s cool your Nokia works as a podcast player. Does it work as a phone? I loved my old Nokia, but never found them effective enough as a smart phone. But my feature phone from 2004 still boots up and I can play the snake game I bought.
I passed on my old 4 that is still being used as a Netflix/ web browser.
This is contrary to competitor phones that have hardware issues as well as ability to keep getting software updates.
Nexus 5x released sep 2015 and selling used for $85 with original retail [0] compared to 6s released at the same dome that is now selling used for $165 despite an original price of $650 and worse specs [1].
Certainly some of this price difference is due to Apple as a luxury product. But it may also be due to new OS releases not being supported on the 5X, but are on the 6S.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0178GEA04/ref=mw_dp... [1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B015E8TYHW/ref=mw_dp...