2 year lifecycle and a 3 year payment plan.
Apple supports their phones for at least 5 years. iPhone XS from 2018 is still supported by the current version of iOS. As iOS 26 just came out, that means 8 years of software support.
Unfortunately apple is a walled garden
I want my garden to have walls
You can keep your walls and apple can let other people take those walls down. It could easily be a win/win. If they did that, they would capture a lot of android market.
I also have a lot of older relatives who I can let roam in the Apple Walled Garden and be 99.95% sure they can’t fuck anything up by installing a sus app.
I only have to train them on phishing.
Yeah but they make their devices terribly slow. I had a 8 y/o Oneplus 5 with Lineage OS 22.2 which was running as fast as my iPhone 13 pro with iOS 26 — which wasn’t the case 3 years back when I bought the iPhone. Unfortunately the motherboard of OP5 is dead because of wear & tear due to everyday use and is not worth the repair cost. So yeah, even my Oneplus 5 got 8 years of software updates (although not officially) and may get some more if the LineageOS team would still maintain it.
Grandma got her Cutco out, she ain’t playing around.
