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They must love having to ask their parents for a new phone every couple of years because they can't install apps due to their phone being out of date
Apple has much better support for their phones, you can get iOS 17 on Xr which was released in 2018. On the other hand pixel 3 which was also released in 2018 lost official support with android 12 but of course in android you could just flash a custom rom and call it a day. So I don't think it's fair to say you need to upgrade every "couple" of years given the average user probably upgrades every 3-4 years regardless if they use iOS or Android.
I still have my first gen iPhone SE on iOS 15, still completely usable in 2023 although I am noticing more apps only available on iOS 16, mostly newer releases such as Lemmy clients, ChatGPT (the app), etc.
I don't think this is too bad for a 6 year old phone. I used to daily drive my Galaxy S5 until about three years ago when it was 5 years old, and that was forced up to modern LineageOS at that point because the original Samsung firmware just wasn't cutting it.
There's a lot of things I hate about Apple which I could rag on for days, but the argument of "You need to replace your iPhone every two years" is an uninformed opinion, and a baseless argument.
Wait is the is on ios phones tied to the hardware so like if a phone was made with iOS 15 you can't update it to iOS 16
No, iOS can absolutely be updated, but only up to where Apple stops supporting the device. I think my iPhone SE 1st gen was released on iOS 9, and it got to iOS 15, where Apple did not release iOS 16 for it. However it still gets security updates and probably will for about another year, based on Apple's history.
Of all the things to bash on Apple for, this is probably the stupidest.
One of the few things Apple objectively does better is software support for older phones. They give way longer support than 90% of Android phones.
I think they meant storage