There's longevity in the devices, but not as much longevity in the software. Each update gets slower than the last and then you stop getting updates at all.
My refusal to buy a phone crippled in this way is also a middle finger to them. The only way to influence their decision is to vote with our valet. It might be easy for them to ignore the "vocal minority", sales results might deliver a stronger result.
Although, frankly, the probability of Apple admitting to making a mistake are sub-zero. Nevertheless, it may stop them from making a similar "courageously" stupid mistake in the future.
So unless I missed something, that something being the music industry deciding that headphone jacks need to be replaced with lightening / usb-c ports, then Apple (and the industry follows) is unilaterally deciding to demote the music component of the iPhone.
That’s not a little thing and I don’t feel that explaining why it is not a little thing is necessary.
If you just want to be able to send sms/mms from your browser stuff like Pushbullet works fine if you're willing to pay the monthly fee. It's what I settled with when I left iOS when I switched to Fi 3 years ago (almost to the day).
I also use it when I see a site on my phone that I'd rather read on a monitor and just push it to open up at home so it is sitting there waiting for me, that alone is worth the price each month to me.
People grow attached to their obsolete legacy hardware. The nostalgia is strong. I recently wired my house for Internet with physical wires, most out of habit and irrationality. 99% of the Internet use in my household is Wi-Fi, but I'm stuck in the past where "Ethernet is better!" even if technically yes it's faster to my gateway.
Fortunately, for actual legitimate use cases of legacy hardware, we have a multitude of dongles to choose from.
Aren’t you generalizing all consumers? I am also a consumer and I personally don’t care about jack because I’ve been using Bluetooth headphones for years and hated anything with wires ever since I tried Bluetooth. Not sure why people are trying to make a bigger deal out of it than it really is, it’s not a conspiracy theory against you.
I got a pixel2 xl. like my dell, it charges via usb-c. a have a bt headset I use for both the laptop and the phone. The lack of cable, especially when I travel and sleep on a plane with music playing, is important. That 1mm of saved space? I'll take it - I wouldn't be using the headphone port anywise.
You - go buy any of the hundreds of phones with the heaphone port you want. No one is stopping you.
They're not crippling anything. They just don't care about you not buying their product, because when I looked to buy mine, I specifically looked for phones with just a usb-c port. like my laptop. for every one of you, there are one of me (probably more).
Do you complain a lexus is not good for moving couches? Or do you buy something else? Your line of reasoning is the middle finger to the consumer. What Google and Apple did are what I, their consumer wants.
so, for whatever features you want, there is a phone. there are hundreds of phones. when you start combining them, you are personalizing a phone. products are made for target markets. that's why people customize cars.
get a phone with a jack, put your own android on it, update it when it's updated. done. If you want a large company to make something specifically for you, with the combination of exact features you want - they don't. same for cars. same for coffee makers.
Security updates are, again unambiguously, an important feature. You might not care but plenty of people do, and there’s lots of well-documented reasons why that’s probably the saner choice.
Take two big, important features, and realise you can’t have both at the same time. One of those features used to be ubiquitous, and is still present in most devices, but is being phased out. You’re damned right people who care about both feel their device choices are crippled. I don’t blame them.
Are security devices optional features for cars (and I am not talking about collection cars or similar niche items) ? They are not in first-world countries.
I think they've also ditched the headphone jack in their latest models though. For a while it seemed like they'd hold out against glass backs and dropping jacks. But no.
https://www.androidpit.com/sony-xperia-official-android-upda...
I've largely stopped bothering with Android system security updates due to soft-bricking and just concentrate on keeping browser / e-mail and other Internet apps updated.
Apple seems to be the only game in town for more than 3 years from date of launch.
Plan B is accept that Android is just second tier stuff and buy a $350 Poco and accept binning perfectly fine hardware because it's so cheap that the price works out.
That was my first and last Android phone however. If you think Android is a decent OS try removing Google from it.
If you are ok with Android, Sony hardware is good. Was my second favorite phone vs my X. The screen was 4K and the audio was great for a phone. It was on the heavy side but well built. Lots of battery.
Actually that was one of my favorite things about my Xperia XZ1 Compact: running LineageOS without Google services. The battery life was insane, like 10-12 hours of screen-on time. I simply did not have to think about charging the thing; I'd charge it every 2-3 days.
Having a device that I could readily bootloader unlock that also has official AOSP support complete with device trees direct from Sony was such a refreshing change for me after years of hacking together homemade device trees for various LG devices.
I regret trading that phone for an LG G7, with its mediocre battery life, heavily bloated, laggy software, and precarious glass build -- also cannot ever be bootloader unlocked, and even if it could you'd have to rely on some community approximation for the device trees, forfeiting fully-functional camera support.
Currently the iPhone 5s, 6, 6 plus, 6s, 6s plus and SE all are still getting security updates. The iPhone 5s was introduced in 2013.
My iPhone 6s is fine. An older pixel will be fine too as soon as I figure out how to ditch iMessage.
This actually feels a lot like how Facebook seems to intentionally cripple their mobile site to try and get me to install their app so they can have more of my info. It's inconveniencing me very deliberately to try and hold my convenience hostage.