The products have extremely long usage cycles relative to the industry standard. It's such that they've integrated the environmental impact deep into their product design and business.
You can argue that this is simply a byproduct, but they've talked a lot about it over the years that it's pretty deliberate.
Or non upgradeable pcs?
Or making you dispose your perfectly good screen, when your iMac gets old?
Resale value is high due too really good marketing and brand recognition combined with high prices.
People will often buy a 3 year old iPhone instead of technically superior new Android phone for some price, just to have this brand.
Not necessarily. Using one specific data point, I can also claim to make this argument invalid. The three year old iPhone will certainly, and surely, run the latest iOS, whereas the new Android phone (priced the same as a three year old used iPhone) is highly likely to have an OS that's already a year or two older and will never get updates in the future, putting the user at a much higher risk. So which is better?
Both new are priced in the range of used 6.
Both run latest Android and will have updates for 3-4 years, since they both have non vendor modified Android.
My iPhone 6s is starting to act up, especially when cold but I haven't replaced the battery in that yet. I'll probably get that done this summer when the phone gets to the point it can't go a full day without a charge.
I don't care about the supposed technological superiority of a cellphone. I just want it to work. Apple seems to put more effort in to privacy and security and I like their business model more than Google's. I prefer to be a customer instead of a product.
And my desktop PC is better. What's the point of this?
You can't upgrade anything on a new MBP, and every computer i had so far had at least a RAM upgrade in it's life. With Macbook, you just have to throw it away, which isn't too eco friendly, is it?
> I don't care about the supposed technological superiority of a cellphone.
Why don't you buy a Nokia 8100 then? It just works :)
On the other side, every other phone on the market at the time had a battery cover and toolless replacement was possible.
It got a bit harder with iPhone 5 though, since screws now secure front panel, not back to the chassis.
Which means that your old iPhone goes to someone else rather than the landfill…
> People will often buy a 3 year old iPhone instead of technically superior new Android phone for some price, just to have this brand.
Technically superior in what way?
Your Android phone will too, you will just be paid less for it.
> Technically superior in what way?
Bigger screen with better resolution,
better camera,
faster UI,
NFC,
wireless charging,
USB-C with fastcharge,
longer battery life,
expandable storage,
and most important, possibility to install a decent web browser instead of having to rely on app for every website you visit :)
I think the big N still has it going.
I don't see this trend at all in my environment. Actually quite contrary. Some, who love Apple products, always upgrade really soon. I've got an Sony smartphone for 6 years. Regarding tablets, my parents, sisters, parents in law have an Android tablet, Surface and iPad and independent of the brand they all have theirs for years and don't plan to upgrade soon.
So, this is a myth common to premium products. Probably part of the marketing strategy (same for cars, kitchen gear, etc.).
Not sure if I want them to spend resources and make products more expensive just so I can repair my 10 year old iPhone myself. I have no desire spending time repairing an old phone that isnt usable already anyway due to its aged hardware.
Not sure if that only applies to recent devices, or everything it's ever sold.
This is like saying “if he grows up to be a pro basketball player, he’ll be rich.” Should be pretty obvious that it’s an astronomical longshot at best.
Whether a child is raised well or not has nothing to do with their effect on the environment. Simply existing in the modern world clearly has a huge cost.
Multiple generations just multiplies the negative impact- it doesn't reverse it. At some point (which we may discover sooner rather than later) humanity's impact will be beyond repair.
I just don't know where you get off telling people they shouldn't have kids. Maybe you're just immature, I don't know, but there's nothing to be gained from it.
My point is that if a person is concerned about the environment and the toll humanity is taking on it, recognize the affect your personal choice is having.
Thanks for your blessing. It's everything else you said )moreso the way in which you said it) that's wrong.
I can’t handle this level of edginess.
Please quote me in full during your ad hominem attacks.
How is being ignorant of or willfully ignoring the consequences of one's action not delusional?
This is especially visible on phones. Twice I've had a 4 year iPhone, twice it ran the latest software. There are very few Android phones for which this is true.
They are fast enough to do web browsing and media consumption.
i5-5350u from newest Macbook Air is actually way slower than 9 year old i7-960, and it's sufficient for most people.
Four year old Nexus 6P has latest system version. Android One phones will have it too.
Time to live was a big difference in favor of Apple few years ago, but it's getting way better for Android phones now.
> Where I live it's pretty common to have a 6-7 year old gaming PC with SSD, and RAM upgrade among less tech savvy people.
Why would a "less tech savvy" person have a gaming PC?
> They are fast enough to do web browsing and media consumption.
That's not what a gaming PC is for…
> i5-5350u from newest Macbook Air is actually way slower than 9 year old i7-960, and it's sufficient for most people.
1. i7-960 is the processor from the Mac Pro. i5-5350u is from an ultraportable laptop.
2. The "newest Macbook Air" hasn't been substantially updated in around three to four years.
> Four year old Nexus 6P has latest system version
There's many things wrong with this statement, so let me break it down.
1. Nexus 6P came out in September 2015, so it's not even three years old yet.
2. Nexus 6P will not be getting the Android P update, which is currently in beta.
3. Nexus 6P is the high-end flagship phone literally backed by Google. No other Android phone is going to get updates as long as it does.
4. iPhone 6, which came out in 2014, will most likely be getting the update for iOS 12.
Kids. Adults buy kids new hardware to play latest games, and older stuff that is replaced is good enough for them.
> That's not what a gaming PC is for…
Repurposing old hardware for new uses is what being eco friendly is about.
> i7-960 is the processor from the Mac Pro.
No, it's a processor you would go and buy off shelf (hard to imagine, I know) and use in a decent gaming PC in that time, that happens to also be in a mac pro.
>The "newest Macbook Air" hasn't been substantially updated in around three to four years.
It's for June 2017 model, latest that was on Wikipedia. Is there a newer one which is twice as fast?
>The processor you've selected is from an ultraportable laptop
I wanted to state that for quite some time people don't actually need better hardware for web browsing or watching movies. This is a response to claim that 2010 PC users with Windows 10 being so rare, and that Mac mini from 2012 still having updates making it something special.
>Nexus 6P is the high-end flagship phone literally backed by Google. No other Android phone is going to get updates as long as it does.
iPhone is the high-end flagship phone literally backed by Apple. No other iOS phone is going to exist...
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. You mention that adults are buying their children new hardware, but you're also talking about 6-7 year old gaming PCs? Not quite sure what you mean.
> Repurposing old hardware for new uses is what being eco friendly is about.
Yeah, but these are gaming PCs. They're terribly impractical for casual use. They're bulky and hot and noisy, with terrible battery life and a large power consumption.
> It's for June 2017 model, latest that was on Wikipedia. Is there a newer one which is twice as fast?
It's the "latest" in the sense that they bumped the clock speed of the process slightly and kept the Broadwell-era CPU in 2017; otherwise it's all parts from 2015 or before. Even the MacBook from today is faster, and MacBook Pro, while not "twice as fast", is around 1 1/2 times faster or so.
> This is a response to claim that 2010 PC users with Windows 10 being so rare, and that Mac mini from 2012 still having updates making it something special.
You know, I've never seen anyone still using a PC from 2010. Macs from 2010 aren't that uncommon though; I know at least a handful of people who use the non-Retina MacBook Pros from like 2009 every day.
> iPhone is the high-end flagship phone literally backed by Apple. No other iOS phone is going to exist...
Yes, that's my point. You buy an iPhone because it's a high end phone that Apple's dedicated to support for years. With Android it's hit-or-miss. Sometimes you hit Google and get updates for two or three years. Sometimes you get Samsung and wait six months to get a two-year old version of Android from your carrier. You buy an iPhone and you are instantly guaranteed updates straight from Apple, immediately and regularly, for the next five years. And that's any iPhone, from iPhone X to iPhone SE.
You buy a new PC, what happens to old one? It doesn't magically disappear.
>Yeah, but these are gaming PCs. They're terribly impractical for casual use. They're bulky and hot and noisy, with terrible battery life and a large power consumption.
I'm talking about desktops, not laptops. They're not noisy and hot unless you run them at 100%, which you don't do when not gaming. You could also remove GPU and save some power, but I rarely see people doing this.
> You know, I've never seen anyone still using a PC from 2010. Macs from 2010 aren't that uncommon though; I know at least a handful of people who use the non-Retina MacBook Pros from like 2009 every day
This is why i stated 'where I live'. Macs aren't common here (there's a trend for last 3-4 years for MacBooks, but still low market share), and in 2010 they were almost nonexistent. This is why there aren't much of old ones around.
Everyone had a PC though, and it can be seen that they can handle new versions of Windows as well if not better than macs can handle new OSX.
> Even the MacBook from today is faster, and MacBook Pro, while not "twice as fast", is around 1 1/2 times faster or so.
Yes, but did you see people owning Airs complain about slugishness? For same reason they don't on 2x faster, 7 year old machine.
> With Android it's hit-or-miss.
With Android you have choice. You pay premium for a pixel and updates, or go cheap and don't get those. There's also Android One initiative, which gives phones updates straight from google. Yes, harder for uneducated guesses, but you can still stay good knowing only that Google = longer life.
With iOS there's only one choice.
If you get a galaxy S4 now, it's not the fastest, but perfectly usable phone.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/ios-11-on-the-iphone...
Same thing happened to iPhone 4 a while ago, it was literally killed by iOS 7.
I'd rather not update in this case.
Also, google is sending security patches for older versions of Android. Latest one for S5 is from beginning of 2018.