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My first and only iPhone became unusably slow with a major OS upgrade about 2 years into its life. I haven't bought an Apple product since.

I don't like Google either, but I've had several Galaxy phones since then and every one has lasted until I was ready to replace it on my own schedule. My current one is 2.5 years old and feels no worse off than the day I bought it.

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That is roughly the opposite experience of most iPhone users. For my personal experience, iOS upgrades tend to make the phone go faster or at worst simply let it run at the same speed.

Anecdotal, but I didn't start using iPhones until my 11 Pro, and I haven't had a reason to replace it till now.

Which one?

The iPhone “I made this story up” is my guess.

Certainly major software updates can break things, but that is why you can (though not always quite easily) downgrade for a while after an update.

I'm willing to bet it's an iPhone 4, because I had the same experience.

I switched to Android for several years after.

That's just scaling difficulty. Android was pretty shit back then too and continued to have performance degredattion due to other reasons like storge implementation unti a few years ago - idk about now.

It's not impossible if it were an early iPhone - particularly one before iPhone 5.

Not really relevant to modern iPhones, but they wouldn't know that if they've sworn off iPhones since.

Let’s not put those early phones into the same bracket with more modern ones — the phone market had a very steep improvement in its early years, that has only entered a more stagnating period a few years ago. Before that you pretty much had to buy a new phone each 3 years, now an iphone X is and will be available for many years to come.

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