Smartphone design has been getting worse and worse while the industry itself has become an environmental and humanitarian nightmare, writes Phineas Harper.
Ned Ludd may be long dead, he may never even have existed at all, but he was right – and it’s time we started listening.
But support has massively increased in the last few years. A year or two of software updates used to standare, now Samsung and Google are doing 7 years (I’m not sure if apple has done an announcement but it looks like iOS 18 will run on the 6 year old iPhone XR)
That’s fair, although I don’t feel it’s changed much for iPhone, past the first few models where the hardware improvements were most dramatic. 2011’s iPhone 4S had five years of major updates supported. The 5S (2013) had six. The iPhone X (2017) is probably on its last major version at seven years. That’s a slow improvement, which still deserves recognition I suppose.
But support has massively increased in the last few years. A year or two of software updates used to standare, now Samsung and Google are doing 7 years (I’m not sure if apple has done an announcement but it looks like iOS 18 will run on the 6 year old iPhone XR)
That’s fair, although I don’t feel it’s changed much for iPhone, past the first few models where the hardware improvements were most dramatic. 2011’s iPhone 4S had five years of major updates supported. The 5S (2013) had six. The iPhone X (2017) is probably on its last major version at seven years. That’s a slow improvement, which still deserves recognition I suppose.
Apple was way ahead of android manufacturers for ages, they’ve just caught up now. That’s where the biggest changes are