Apple to Mark iPhone 5c as Obsolete Next Month

[Wanted797]

hahaha i still laugh when i hear "unapologetically plastic"

The these we’re plastic made them really good caseless. I would love to have a plastic phone today so I don’t have also worry about the back glass.

 

[DFZD]

I had the one in blue. Good old days when you didn’t need a case for your phone.

 

[Jim Lahey]

From a bygone era where cell phones were still cool. Before they became oversized and overpriced data-mining life sentinels.

 

[tomtad]

A good excuse to share the brilliant “designed together” video that shows how software and hardware design was integrated with the 5C

 

[WWPD]

I remember Jony Ive trying to make plastic sound fancy.

 

[TheLunaPark]

Still my favourite iPhone out of the ones I’ve owned.

 

[Expos of 1969]

I had a white one. Plastic is the way to go for durability compared to glass. This was a good phone. Not as great as my iPhone SE 1st generation, but good.

 

[LionTeeth]

Agreed! I liked the iPhone 5C but I bought the gold iPhone 5S - and that truly looked ELITE. If I had to pick my 2 favorite iPhone designs, it would be the gold 5S and the midnight green 11 Pro Max.

The 5S was even featured in Britney's latest music video at the time, I had to have that phone 🤣

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Oh gold was the one to have. When you think 5S you think the gold model. I truly can’t picture a space grey 5s lol

 

[honglong1976]

Worst phone Apple ever made, and the available cases were awful with holes in the wrong place.

If Nokia made an iPhone, it would look like this,

 

[Radin.Y]

The iPhone 5c also marked the first time Apple had released a lower-end iPhone model aimed at budget-conscious customers

It hardly counts as such. It was the same hardware as iPhone 5, but wrapped in plastic instead of metal/glass. With the launch of 5s, the price of iPhone 5 would have been dropped to the same level they sold 5c for. So it wasn't revolutionary price-wise at all.

 

[contacos]

Back when iPhone was light as a feather 😍

(Never owned this one but I always appreciated how light it was). My 12 PM is a brick

 

[Wildkraut]

I remember Jony Ive trying to make plastic sound fancy.

Why is metal fancier?
It wasn’t the plastic that made this iPhone fail.

 

[Jim Lahey]

I remember Jony Ive trying to make plastic sound fancy.

To be fair, Ive could make s@#t on a stick sound fancy.

 

[Fatboy71]

9 years is a hell of a good run for support, not many other Smartphones I can think of (other than iPhone) that would have support for that long.

Got to admit I was never a fan of the 5C, I always thought it looked like a toy phone in my opinion, but was a good choice for people on a smaller budget that wanted an iPhone.

 

[Gudi]

It was obsolete from the start when it didn't make the 64-bit transition.

 

[bousozoku]

It was a good phone with more LTE bands than the previous phones. It had good connectivity because of the plastic body. I was better off than with the iPhone 4S I previously had.

 

[jonblatho]

For months you could only find the gold model for resale for upwards of $800 on eBay.

I was able to find a gold iPhone 5s without issue less than two months in. In fairness, I purchased through a regional carrier, not one of the “Big Four.”

 

[ddf]

The price didn't matter to me. 5C had just the best feel, and I really loved it.
Well, now that I cover my iPhone with a plastic case, I no longer care about designs.

 

[jonblatho]

These were always lemons because they had 8GB of storage (for the one everybody I know bought as they wanted the cheapest iPhone) and it wasn't enough for anything other than the system. As such, they were laggie and always told people they were 'out of storage', even when they weren't storing anything.

That said, I find Apple's 'vintage' and 'obsolete' language weird. I mean... I still have a Pac-Land arcade machine with a CRT monitor firing up in the man cave. If somebody were broke and found a mint 32GB iPhone 5C in a dumpster, they could stick a SIM in and use it no problems.

Is a product REALLY obsolete when it's compatible with today's websites / phone towers / charging cables / computers? I disagree with their definition. UNSUPPORTED yes... but it's less than 10 years old (i.e. isn't a 1950's "vintage" Chevy or something) and still works with today's tech (so isn't obsolete). Just saying.

Re: being compatible with today’s websites, I can’t speak for every organization, but at mine our website is only formally supported on the most recent two major versions of iOS. As far as we know it should work fine; we certainly don’t go out of our way to block people on older browsers. But since the iPhone 5c is stuck on iOS 10, if someone called us with a website issue on their iPhone 5c and trivial troubleshooting steps didn’t fix it, whatever issue they have isn’t getting fixed.

Isn’t the 5c on increasingly shaky ground with respect to carrier support, too, with its lack of VoLTE support?

 

[Wahlstrm]

The only iPhone I just had to buy as soon as it hit stores.

Loved it.

 

[krspkbl]

i bought one but returned it. can't remember what issue i had with it. loved the design though!

i wish Apple would make more colourful fun looking iphones again. I know the XR line up was colourful but even that phone is old now.

 

[winxmac]

i bought one but returned it. can't remember what issue i had with it. loved the design though!

i wish Apple would make more colourful fun looking iphones again. I know the XR line up was colourful but even that phone is old now.

iPhone XR may be old yet it still is fully supported on iOS 16 unlike iPhone 8 and 8 Plus that does not have all the features of iOS 16 available to it due to hardware limitations...

iPhone XR can be somewhat considered a spiritual successor of the iPhone 5C since some of the colors introduced by it are also used by iPhone XR like the blue version...

 

[USB-Adapter]

I wish an iPhone 14 or 15 Mini C.
In the size of the 13 Mini and with plastic body. And maybe 1-2 mm thicker for better battery life.

 

[IsaacM]

They look so good! Loved the design of these phones.

Too bad about the insides.

 

[Malus120]

Wow. I had completely forgotten these existed!
Wasn't my style, as I had a 5s which I adored, but I loved the throwback to the old rainbow iMacs!
(RIP small phones )