Out of curiosity, what do you pay for service?
$50 CDN (or $38 USD)
unlimited talk domestically
200 minutes of long distance/month
unlimited text
6 GB of LTE data
no bullshit fees…just the $50 for everything
However due to my great (for this market) deal, they have recently made me ineligible for subsidized upgrades after 5 years at this price. If I want an upgrade eligible package, it’s the same thing for about $68 a month or $52 USD. Of course at $68/month I’m paying an extra $18/month or $432 every 2 years…in order to get my provider to subsidize my phone price by…$400. What’s the point.
My note 3 is robust, has massive storage and is all around excellent. I can’t think of any reason to upgrade it personally.
I found out last night that my old Galaxy S5 shoots 4K
Is it considered illegal for a manufacturer to release software updates for older devices that intentionally make it run poorly and introduce new “issues”?
Generally speaking, I think any manufacturer that intentionally sought to damage its customers’ products would be subject to some kind of liability.
Gotcha. I must not have been paying attention to that part of the presentation. I have a set of powerbeats for the gym - they’re decent but lack the sound quality of many wired headphones.
I’m just thinking out loud… Not necessarily to “damage” the device, but what if those updates were intentionally designed to work just beyond the hardware limitations of the ‘older model’. Those same updates would be in-line with the capability of the new model. I mean, hell, we all click ‘accept terms & conditions’, so the end user doesn’t have much of a leg to stand on from a legal perspective. Seems like a pretty straight-forward way to make people fall out of love with their current device…
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I’ve thought this way since the iPhone 4/4S came out…
^^ I get what you’re saying, but isn’t this just the nature of technology? What’s the rule about the speed of the cpu doubling every 18 months or so?
The tech industry is highly competitive, so naturally companies either innovate or die. Their shareholders would rightly demand nothing less. I think striking the proper balance between serving customers of old and new products is probably a tricky proposition. That said, I don’t think a business model that entices people to fall out of love with their old devices is a bad thing - it’s what has made Apple one of the most successful businesses in the world.
I would think so. I think it would also be harder to prove that they have ill intentions although every update completely ruins your phone. Worse part is you don’t have a choice to update.
lol
Blew his thumbs off. That’s why he hasn’t replied.
Weird story that. It’s like. Samsung rushed it. Maybe they hired Tesla engineers. Or the guys who said ios10 was ready
It’s anti competitive. The best player in any vertical gets 90% of the economic benefit. So they all try to build natural monopolies. Platforms. Standards. Whatever.
http://bgr.com/2016/09/29/iphone-7-exploding-fire-photos/
Is Apple now copying Samsung? I guess we’ll find out soon enough if this was an oddball one off or an actual problem like it was for the Note 7.
I got the jet black (polished) iPhone 7 plus 128GB, the smallest memory size for that finish. It only took about 2 weeks from the date of my preorder, which was way ahead of the estimated delivery date.
I’m pretty in love with the device. The back is grippy for the first time, as compared to the metallic backing plates which tend to slip as your fingers sweat on them. It feels the same as the front glass. I wasn’t paying careful attention and was surprised that an $850 phone doesn’t come with AirPods. So this thing really is $1k when you add those in. I hooked up the lightning adapter to my Bose earbuds and all is fine there.
The other night I asked the uber driver to turn the radio on and he handed me a cable to connect my phone. Obviously that wasn’t possible. First limitation.
I have the first apple watch and I’m not upgrading it until it gets thinner in form factor. I don’t care if the screen is brighter or if it has GPS.
I don’t think it’s at all intended to damage…however I think it’s definitely a nice consequence for the manufacturers that the older phones struggle with the new software.
Is it not optional (the ‘upgrade’ to new software versions)? On Android I can defer upgrading/updating as long as I want. I wouldn’t be surprised if the iPhone took a different approach.
Well, it would seem my first foray into Samsung products has been a bust. Maybe I’ll go back to Blackberry lol. Or maybe I’ll try that Google phone?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/10/11/samsung-stopping-galaxy-note-7-production/91885996/
Samsung engineers right now: https://i.imgur.com/uDqEkRA.gifv