• fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Apple support and provide software updates for iPhones for 7 years. There’s plenty to hate about Apple but they’ve pretty much got the longest support for devices in the mobile industry.

    I’d love to know more vendors who support their devices for longer than 7 years.

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      1 year ago

      They also purposely build their devices in such a way that they often can’t be economically repaired, necessitating a repurchase. Check out Louis Rossman on YouTube, he owns a repair shop and rants about it all the time.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve literally just got my phone back from a local phone repair shop (repairing my iPhone) and it’s Samsungs my repair person rants about (the Z and S models they mentioned in particular). They fixed my iPhone same day while I waited.

        Looking at iFixit scores, that seems to track. Samsungs seem to get 2/10 to 4/10, Apple get 6/10s. Google Pixel 7 seems to get slated everywhere for taking the longest to repair.

        Phones in general seem to be awful to repair but I do not see iPhones as any worse than the current trends of unrepairable flip phones or phones with flimsy components like the Pixel 7 rear camera glass.

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      1 year ago

      l’d love to know more vendors who support their devices for longer than 7 years.

      Fairphone

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          1 year ago

          That was the old support standard. From this year onwards, new models will be supported for 8 years (5 year Android updates + 3 year security updates).

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            1 year ago

            Damn… that is nice! I do hope they get their battery life and camera in better shape, then they will be a real good alternative to most other phones.