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Apple to Discontinue Support for iPhone 4 in iOS 8
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Yearly iPhone loses...
Don't we generally lose an iPhone model each year as not being supported by the new iOS?
(Next year will be the 4s!)
Gary
Don't we generally lose an iPhone model each year as not being supported by the new iOS?
(Next year will be the 4s!)
Gary
Are you seriously surprised they didn't drop their newest iPod?
Isn't the 5th gen the most current? That would make no sense to drop it.
It's bound to happen. I got my iPhone 4 three years ago this Father's Day, which marks the end of my current contract here in Canada, where the telecom companies rip you off big time... Urgently waiting for the iPhone 6...
TL;DR Its bound to happen, iP4 users get an iP6 end of story, next year it will be 4s getting the boot
TL;DR Its bound to happen, iP4 users get an iP6 end of story, next year it will be 4s getting the boot
....not on my other half's iPhone 4 it doesn't! Apps take an age to open and close and the whole interface is really quite slow - to the point of when I try and use it, it just really gets on my nerves and is really quite frustrating!!
I thought that they would also leave out the iPhone 5 and and iPad 2 (I have both), but luckily they didn't...!!
....not on my other half's iPhone 4 it doesn't! Apps take an age to open and close and the whole interface is really quite slow - to the point of when I try and use it, it just really gets on my nerves and is really quite frustrating!!
Do you have 7.1? And a bit of patience?
Not USA, because of Apple's ripoff, not taxes (but price does include them).
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They were selling them as new in mass to consumers and education institutions a mere few months ago.
To drop it now would be to toss their customers under a bus. Apple loves their customers.
Or else what?
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So it's not perfectly fine.
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That's great and all, but as a consumer I find it really ticks me off. I also fail to see how having next to flawless backwards compatibility in their new OSs would hold them back. It doesn't hold Microsoft back. It helped make them the industry standard in the personal computer world.
It amazes me still to this day that upgrading Apple's OSs often creates more problems than it is worth. And yet with Microsoft there is rarely an issue if your hardware is up to spec.
Anyway... I digress.
In this case, all iPhone 4 hardware are not up to spec. No airdrop chip, single core, etc.
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The vast majority probably updates every two years. This isn't a desktop computer.
512MB of RAM
The iPhone 4 and iPad both got A4s with 512MB of RAM. The iPod touch 4G got an A4 with 256MB of RAM.
False. Apple is still supporting OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and above. If you count Yosemite, that's five major OS versions still being supported. And by support, I mean AppleCare tech support and software updates (granted updates for the older OS versions is generally limited to major bug fixes and security updates).
In my real world experience, that is also false.
Apple products continue to have the best re-sell value of any computer/electronics on the market. I had a Droid 2 phone a few years back and they stopped updating the software for that one within a year. Had I chosen not to upgrade from my iPhone 4S to my current iPhone 5S, I would still be receiving software updates for it more than two years after it was released (it is still supported).
Also, I tried to resell that Droid 2 phone about a year after I bought it and was lucky to get maybe $50 for it. I sold my iPhone 4S a year after I bought it and got about $300. Numbers don't lie.
The iPad 2 also has a dual core processor which is the minimum for the upcoming iOS 8 release from what I've read. It's also running essentially the same hardware specs as the first generation iPad Mini, so to discontinue support for one without discontinuing support for the other would tick off A LOT of people.
I agree with you. Though Apple's new OS X seem to be more like service packs at times, I get annoyed. At least Apple makes efforts to speed up older OS X devices ( Mavericks was suppose to), but it is irksome. For example, I am very happy with Mavericks and don't plan on upgrading to Yosemite soon just because my system is running smooth, apps are stable, and the system is relatively bug free, plus I'm concerned if the new UI would slow my system down like iOS 7 did.
However, aside from about one year of security updates Mavericks will fade into oblivion. I doubt that even useful features that could be ported (like iCloud Drive) won't be. I agree with you that at least Microsoft maintains admirable support for it's OS versions.
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I think SL has been dropped. I'm pretty sure they don't receive security updates anymore, but I may be wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard
Support Status: Unsupported.
And as for AppleCare, it costs quite a bit for what you actually get.
As I said, there are exceptions. Don't assume your personal experience to be the experience the world at large has. And I wasn't even on about reselling. Resell value has pretty much nothing to do with my point.
512MB of RAM
The iPhone 4 and iPad both got A4s with 512MB of RAM. The iPod touch 4G got an A4 with 256MB of RAM.
The iphone 4 got an A4 with 512MB of ram, the ipad 1 got an A4 with 256MB of ram. You can look it up if you want, why do you think the iphone 4 made it all the way to iOS 7 whereas the ipad 1 lost support at iOS 5?
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WHAT, oh my bad haha. That makes no sense though, getting less ram in a tablet an a phone on the same chip
Well, this is awkward
WHAT, oh my bad haha. That makes no sense though, getting less ram in a tablet an a phone on the same chip
Well, this is awkward
No problem, I feel the same way, seems stupid, but that's what they did.
I use an iphone 4....dont they care about their customers who still use these? I'm going to be using this phone until i have an upgrade in April...
They care. They've supported it for what will be 4 years and 3 months.
That's WAAAAY more than any of the old hat phone manufactures have ever done.
They can't support it forever.
I know it wasn't gonna last forever, but i'm sorry to see no iOS 8 for iPhone 4. I have an iPhone 4 and i've ran every version of iOS up-to current (7.1.1). The performance did degrade with 7.0, but 7.1 made it very usable again. Its by no means a speed demon like it used to be when side by side with a 5S, but its a more than capable phone. I wish Apple would give it an iOS 7.5 with a few features from 8. I can't deny it had a good run tho, from Sept 2010 until June 2014. The iPhone 4 was the phone that really changed everything, even the 5S has major design cues from this model.
I'm eagerly awaiting the iPhone 6 in a few months time as well and I hope not to be disappointed.
BTW I don't think many of you guys understand that not everyone's income and spending ability is the same or standardised. The guy who replaces his iPhone every 1-2 years obviously can afford it. But the guy who has to replace his iPhone every 4-5 years, doesn't do it by choice many times... Many times its prioritising your hard earned $$$. If you can afford US$650 per year for a new iPhone, Great. But for those of us who can't, don't make it seem like thats the status-quo. We expect a phone to last a good few years.
I'm eagerly awaiting the iPhone 6 in a few months time as well and I hope not to be disappointed.
BTW I don't think many of you guys understand that not everyone's income and spending ability is the same or standardised. The guy who replaces his iPhone every 1-2 years obviously can afford it. But the guy who has to replace his iPhone every 4-5 years, doesn't do it by choice many times... Many times its prioritising your hard earned $$$. If you can afford US$650 per year for a new iPhone, Great. But for those of us who can't, don't make it seem like thats the status-quo. We expect a phone to last a good few years.
I got a brand new i7 PC at work 6 months ago. Guess what OS was put on it when my company's IT department did the software build on it. It is still running XP now!
And yes the majority of those still on XP are corporate users. Many of them still using IE6!