What a shitty company. Time and time again they shaft consumers yet people buy into the ecosystem. Marketing works unfortunately.
1 phone that’s not thrown away is 1000s of parts saved.
They should trade them in to Apple, who have one of the best recycling programs amongst hardware vendors. ;P
Depends if you count community support or not because nobody beats Lineageos at this game.
iPhone 5s release date: 2013
Last official update from galaxy s4: Android 5.0.1 in 2015 [1]
Last official update to iPhone 5s: iOS 12.5.7 in 2023 [2]
I’m well aware that you’re speaking of custom roms, but insinuating that this is solving ewaste issues is disingenuous at best. No ewaste is fixed by us nerds flashing custom roms through adb incantations in out of support hardware.
Maybe that's a lesson to learn that we should require open bootloaders and more open systems to reduce ewaste. If Android devices were more opened, this amazing effort to save devices could be even better. As we go forward, more and more older devices will simply be good enough if you could just install software updates onto it.
And as of "nerds", I may point out that the general public doesn't reinstall their windows either and just go to a repair shop.
As anecdotal experience, the same age (or even older) iphones are also being used by many.
Look at the resell value of any other phone, it basically drops to zero the moment you open the box, while even older iphones get sold for very fair prices. And getting that many years out of a phone is absolutely stellar.
Personally, I just let strangers like what they want to like. WTF do I care if they like this phone instead of this other phone.
Interestingly Microsoft actually seems to be supporting right to repair but it could be some kind of PR stunt, still though that’s a good step forward
It literally does - their devices easily reach 8-10 years of active usage, and we are talking about something that is used more than your shoes per day, actively charged-discharged each day, thrown around/fallen down, etc. Like that’s a great lifetime however we look at it, and it might need one or two battery replacements max for that.
Samsung does shitty things, but they are open and honest about it.