Poor people aren’t buying iPhones? What are you taking about? Take a walk.
Yes, iPhones are a luxury, but they are not luxurious items.
As
@mikethemartian pointed out, they are being sold at wallmart, among other places. They are being provided to employees of all sorts in all types of fields,
If you can afford an iPhone, you're not poor. If you're poor and borrowing money to obtain such luxury goods, then that's on you for taking that risk. Not sure why you and the other guy think that just because WalMart sells something means it can't be a luxury item. What's the logic there? I don't get it. Why would it matter if you buy the phone at the Apple Store, Amazon, Best Buy, etc. OR WalMart? It's still the same phone! It doesn't all of a sudden materially change inside the shipping box once it enters WalMart's receiving warehouses, lol!
And an employer providing an employee with a device is not the same as you personally going out and buying it. Most companies have a much larger budget than individual people.
no one should be forced to upgrade, downgrade or change anything because the company you already gave your money to wants you to.
Ah, so you're alledging that Apple's purpose for throttling was to encourage users to upgrade. I don't buy that for a second. I mean, obviously any company would be happy for users to constantly buy their latest products, but I just don't see this as some conspiracy to try to encourage that.
A corporation has to take responsibility for their products for the time they are (reasonably) being used, in this case for the time it can and should be updated and then some years on top in terms of safety because of batteries.
iPhones are common household products that shouldn’t just turn bad like an old apple if they don’t actually need to.
As another person pointed out on this thread in post 89, their iPhone 4S is still working just fine with iOS 9. Obviously it's not going to be as snappy in performance as the latest iPhones, but that's to be expected.
Your arguments continue to be flawed. You say an iPhone is a luxury item so it’s ok if it’s unnecessarily slowed down after a software update. See the irony?
No, I was responding to you saying people couldn't afford to update their iPhone, as if people who are struggling financially are buying iPhones.
Also, again, Apple lied. That’s the actual story. You keep taking your talk but keep ignoring that. I wonder why.
Well in that case every company lies all the time, because no matter what the product, there will always be people who claim their experience doesn't match the marketing hype. Just think of how many people on this forum post about wanting to "downgrade" their macOS for instance. Others are like "Huh? Works fine for me! I love it!"
