Oy. Just get it fixed elsewhere and stop volunteering the rest of our money to subsidize your refusal to keep up with technology.
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Original iPhone Will Soon Be 'Obsolete' In Apple Retail Stores
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Oy. Just get it fixed elsewhere and stop volunteering the rest of our money to subsidize your refusal to keep up with technology.
I have my original 1992 ThinkPad 700C. It's fully operational & OEM parts are still for sale. Now _that's_ a well supported laptop.
It's legendary performance, reliability & ruggedness is why ThinkPads went to the moon, every space shuttle flight, and the International Space Station of the present.
Apple has chosen a retail consumer business model, where demands are far less & obsolescence comes much sooner.
NASA uses older processors that can be radiation hardened more easily on flight hardware. IBM was willing to make these for them. (And they didn't take laptops to the moon. That was in the 60's and 70's... duh.)
I've seen a Macintosh Portable in use on mission. Ever watch a power-eject floppy drive shoot a disk across the cabin? This was before the word "ThinkPad" existed.
BTW, they take iPads now.
Good riddance! I had one, and it took about two minutes to boot up. My iPhone 4 is much better, but is still slow at times. When I replace that with an unlocked iPhone 5S later this year, I'll be glad to be rid of the iPhone 4. Such is progress.
Apollo 17 was ThinkPad equipped. Here's from the IBM ThinkPad site.
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/space/space_thinkpad.html
This phone was introduced in 2007. It's only just now that Apple considers the phone obsolete. That's 6 years. Perfectly reasonable in my opinion. Seriously though, I've never heard a more entitled post. Apple doesn't owe you anything. They sell products. If you want the product, you buy it. If you don't like how long they'll service their products, then don't buy it. Voting with your wallet hurts one business, while "consumer protection laws" tend to hurt everyone, unintended consequences abound.
You also have to realize that not everyone wants to pay for 10 years of service. People who buy dumb phones that just sit in their pocket all day, likely don't care too much if they have to buy a new one, since the old one was dirt cheap anyway. If the business was forced to provide 10 years of service for every phone, then (and here we get back to unintended consequences) the price of the phone would go up needlessly. Consumers are plenty smart enough to decide if the phone and the service provided by the company is adequate for their needs. If it's not, then it's not. The end.
Do you mean OEM parts straight from IBM or sold by 3rd parties, because that is a huge difference here (you could probably still find OEM Apple II parts through third parties). Especially considering IBM no longer makes ThinkPads (Leveno now makes them).
Out of curiosity, do you still use the laptop? I can't imagine it having much practical use anymore.
We have went to the moon with unmanned probes since then, it is possible that they had ThinkPad's in them but I don't know for certain.
This should be posted somewhere on the front page in big, bold letters so when someone is about to make a post about him, they will be able to read that.
I still have mine but it currently sits in my personal Apple memorabilia.
On a related note, I saw an original iPhone as a gallery piece last week. Really weird seeing it in a case for visitors to gaze upon as a distant artifact of the past.
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For old time's sake.....
On a related note, I saw an original iPhone as a gallery piece last week. Really weird seeing it in a case for visitors to gaze upon as a distant artifact of the past.
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For old time's sake.....
Still the best looking and best feeling to hold iPhone of the lot.
My mum uses mine, its still going strong after all these years, and even though the back has taken a bit of a beating, it still looks good because instead of being scratched glass or chipped paint of anodised metal its just got a worn silver appearance.
i miss the reassuring weight, the curved edge and the overall material feel and look of the iPhone 1, everytime i pick up my iPhone 5 i expect to be able to click the top and mints to fall out of it.
My mum uses mine, its still going strong after all these years, and even though the back has taken a bit of a beating, it still looks good because instead of being scratched glass or chipped paint of anodised metal its just got a worn silver appearance.
i miss the reassuring weight, the curved edge and the overall material feel and look of the iPhone 1, everytime i pick up my iPhone 5 i expect to be able to click the top and mints to fall out of it.
The vintage policy is clearly stated, but your assessment is still complete crap. You aren't subsidizing it unless you're a shareholder. The repairs aren't free out of warranty. They likely ensure that there is no real loss involved in them. If there was, it still might not budge the price. If Apple thought they would sell the same number of units for $100 more, the phone price would reflect that.
It's considered "vintage" by Apple five years after sales are discontinued.
It's considered "obsolete" by Apple seven years after sales are discontinue.
UK consumer law says that any possible obligation between seller and purchaser dies six years after purchase (that doesn't mean you would have rights after say 5 1/2 years, it would depend on the situation, it means that after six years the seller doesn't have to talk to you at all, no matter what).
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Why? Electric shocks? I doubt it. You use it exactly the same way as six years ago.
Lack of updates, my 3GS was getting older to use for what I wanted to do because it was moving on three years old, an almost seven year old phone would be a little troublesome for me to use unless what I wanted to do was extremely limited.