Apple Will Keep Throttling iPhones. Here's How to Stop It

If that saying is true, why buy Apple? Doesn't seem like the price correlates at all to the longevity of the product after seeing this thread.

Anecdotally, I've never had a phone only last 2 years... except one. While I buy the newest models of one's I like with groundbreaking features (ie the Motorola Atrix which had one of the first gesture finger print capable unlocks/an interesting desktop mode or the LG G5 which was the first dual camera phone with wide market release that I'm aware of) I always give my partner my old phone each time. Currently she has the V20 and it's still pulling a full days battery life. I haven't strictly bought Android but the one apple phone I did buy was around when they started slowing down device's drastically each OS rollout. It only managed a two year cycle before it got retired to the back up phone pile early.

If a phone can't last 4-5 years in my household I'd likely never buy that brand again.

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