iPhone 15 and Planned Obsolescence

Coming from a 6s Plus I'm glad I upgraded to an iPhone 11 2 years ago back in early 2022, since every 3-4 years seems like a reasonable upgrade to the latest phone

The phobos cartel was a hoax. Watch the video of technological connections.

I have a 17 year old car thats runs like new, regularly serviced. The average age of my clothes is about 5 years old (fashion hasnt really changed in 20 years) my oldest shirt still worn is a long sleve t shirt from a 1992 concert. My flat screen tv in the lounge room is 17 years old and still working perfectly. My phone cost $210 that is 2 years old. We are a blue collar family who do overseas travel annually and dont post our pics on social media. Buying new shit each year is just ridiculous because either you like wasting your hard earned money or you're just trying to keep up with others to impress people. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY NEW SHIT CONSTANTLY!!!

After about two or three major updates I always though my phones started just acting weird. I thought I was going crazy

Buy LED bulbs they last forever. Fuck the cartel.

please put the ads from sponsors on the end of the video im trying to make a fall asleep playlist but i keep getting my vibe crushed by the sponsored segment right when i get in the mood and falling asleep

Im about to buy the iphone 14 pro max and just wanted to know how long it would last. Instead i got this drawn out boring doco which is blantantly obvious. Remove iphone 14 from the title you click bait merchant

Other people when they time travel:
visit their ancestors
Me when I time travel:
I AM FROM THE FUTURE AND I AM HERE TO SHARE SOME HORRIFIC NEWS THAT'LL BECOME REAL FOR GENERATIONS TO COME! THERE WILL MONOPOLIES THAT'LL FORCE YOU TO USE LIGHTBULBS THAT ARE WORSE THAN WHAT YOU HAVE RIGHT NOW! IMAGINE HOW MUCH MONEY WILL BE WASTED FROM THIS STYLE OF CORPORATE GREED WHEN IT MAKES THE PRODUCTS YOU BUY HAVE A SHORTER & SHORTER LIFESPAN! IT'LL BE A WASTE OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR ALL OF US! WE MUST STOP THESE COMPANIES BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! THE COMPANIES THAT'LL BE CAUSING THIS UPCOMING CRISIS WILL BE OSRAM IN GERMANY, PHILIPS IN THE NETHERLANDS, AND GENERAL ELECTRIC IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

Marketing has now become more important than the product.

Take that iOS fans

My 11 pro max dies twice as fast as it did just a few months ago. Only change was an iOS upgrade.

Still use a iphone 6.. its a struggle but im poor 😢😂

Great video! Thank you.
At the end you prupose buying high quality products (meaning long lasting in this case) Hence "diversifying the current model". That seems kind shallow. May be it worth a video about alternatives and ideas to counter the model from the provider perspective.
Thanks again. Nice job

Apple is the worst company on the face of this planet. This company should die for the betterment of humanity.
They lock phones so they cant be repaired and land on landfill creating more waste.
And then they remove charger under green planet guise to make money selling lightning charger increasing waste.
But all they had to do was to put usb-c and remove charger, this would have reduce waste.
Now they are making non repairable desktop called mac studio which is even worse no part can be reused lf you upgrade like pc.

This company is a disgrace on humanity.👎

Wrong.
Your understanding of planned obsolescence is incorrect.
What apple does besides slowing down their older models is make the older apps stop working.
For instance, your bank is TD Bank. The app for it will stop connecting to the TD servers unless your app is updated. But, your old phone is incompatible with the new app. So in order to use the app Apple forces people to get new phones. Does the TD app have new features that demand new hardware. Absolutely not. The new app would work fine on the old hardware. But it has been locked out of older hardware. Tim Cook pays companies like TD or at least their developers to lock out older hardware simply by how the software is compiled. Guess who makes the compilers for Apple products? Yes, Apple. Apple controls the OS, the hardware and the SDK (software development kit). They control when their products become obsolete.

It's because people treat iphones as social status.

I still use a phone made in 2018 - the google pixel 3 xl. It's slower for sure, and there are odd discrepancies in the phone that make me think "that's planned obsolescence" - like how I set google photos to only store photos in the cloud, but yet the photos app uses up whatever free space I have left. Also, the phone lags inexplicably when it shouldn't...

I wish I could have an iPhone 7 that works perfectly for a decade. Unfortunately it seems impossible with apple making it drain battery quickly and lose speed

But just so everyone knows, plugging your phone into a specific type of charger WILL NOT make it somehow immune to planned obsolescence……

You can’t fall victim to planned obsolecence if you never had a mobile phone like me

Now light bulb companies have moved onto LED's. LED's still go out and I haven't done the math but the added cost likely outweighs energy savings.

I loved my iphone 6 plus and 8. Unfortunately Apple kept pushing updates so the entire hard drive was filled by the OS. Then the battery went which used to be detachable in phones before Apple came along. Great job apple you forced me to upgrade to the 11 and buy the biggest hard drive. I swear Apple will soon resort to charging you a monthly fee and give you the phone for free.

Even with planned obsolesce consumers still stay loyal to these companies. Why? Because the big companies buy up all the up and coming smaller companies and either take over their product making it worse or kill of competitor products. This is the real criminal thing.

I have a question. is it really common for someone to buy a new iphone every year? So why do they do that. I understand it with millionaires, they are rich but with normal earners.

I agree about the craziness of 'upgrading" phones every year and the purposeful confusion/bullshit specs that appear (you don't get increased quality as you move up the spending tier, u just different mix of cheap components pushing people to buy the "flogshit" sorry flagship model). PLUS built-in battery means it's hard to fix your phone - whether DIY or local phone guy (who's now out of a job).

HOWEVER obsolescence due to car ownership saturation definitely was not happening in the US in the 20s. In the 20s car, ownership was just below 1 in 4 or (see research gate for property reference and charts) 220 to every 1000 people. There is a larger context of sales slowing but I think that was due to cost as the average person couldn't afford (which I think is an important distinction). But like many addictions, the industry understands the downsides and does little to affect positive change see
Cars
Tobacco
Phones
Social media

And somehow the world keeps turning

You sound like the "here come dat boi" parody by Wavetro 💀

I watched this video on my iPhone 8 and I’m completely content with my life. People always give me shit for having an old phone but you gotta ask yourself “30 years from now am I going to feel an unnerving sense of regret for having an old phone in my twenties?” I highly doubt it. Over your lifetime you can save thousands of dollars by never buying new tech and using devices until they break. As the video stated, it’s better for the planet and the idea that new tech will make you happy is just a deceptive marketing ploy.

I watched this video on my iPhone 8 and I’m completely content with my life. People always give me shit for having an old phone but you gotta ask yourself “30 years from now am I going to feel an unnerving sense of regret for having an old phone in my twenties?” I highly doubt it. Over your lifetime you can save thousands of dollars by never buying new tech and using devices until they break. As the video stated, it’s better for the planet and the idea that new tech will make you happy is just a deceptive marketing ploy.

Simplicity is the strongest weapon against Entropy

Keep making the monster bigger. It’ll be the corporations and elite 1% will certainly make you meet your demise. Greed greed greed greed. Just imagine what it’s like today.

If I hadn't dropped my Galaxy S3, I'd never of bought a new phone. I still prefer my removable battery and smaller size of the S3, instead of my HUGE new phone.
The fact screen replacement is damn near impossible for the end user results in a new device sale when someone inevitably drops it face first onto a hard surface.
Most devices are going for non repairability, soldering in parts or ram and making parts acquisition extremely hard.

One could say that if things are made to last there's even a greater incentive to innovate because it's the only way you can sell a new product if the old one just doesn't break.

Never felt the need to upgrade an item I own by replacing it. Had the same phone since 2008, and I believe it was made around 2004. Its battery still works just fine, need to charge it every 4 days.

Good thing my phone is iphone 5, it wont be affected

Academic video. Not practical. We need a new governing system. Capitalism has its boons and Bane.

got an ad for the iphone 14 literally right after the video ended great timing

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A fan of your content.
Despise Shadow Legends though.
Gotta make that paper!!!

There's no way i just got an ad for the iPhone 14 while watching this

Great video!

The problem is Capitalism. 🗣CHANGE🗣

I got a old iPhone from my grandma and it barley could work

Sheep

Great Video! I get the message at the end "is there any need to upgrade"? well I can answer that smartphone wise, sure you can upgrade every year and the cost is crazy but there is a huge thing you didn't mention, selling a last year used phone can give you allot of that investment in a new phone money back, so I have done with my smartphones, I bought a device in 2019, sold it in 2020 after buying a new device, same in 2021 and in 2022 (bought Redmi K20 Pro, Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro, Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra, and currently Xiaomi 12S Ultra) and after selling a phone each year the cost of the new phone is around $300-$400 each year, that is like buying a cheap Android phone every year and I get the latest and best flagship phones, sure some companies do this greedy and barely improve their phone, but Xiaomi for example is massively improving their flagship lineup every year, better cameras, better chipsets, better battery, faster charging, etc... I had a Xiaomi Mi 5s Plus between 2016-2019 (until I bought Redmi K20 Pro) and I tried to make that Xiaomi phone last as long as possible, in 3 years: my headphone jack died, the phone got very warm very fast, the newer Android versions were hard for it to run, the camera got dated really quick, and battery died really fast, I fixed it best I could, replaced side buttons, applied new thermal paste, replaced battery, installed a custom rom (lineage-os), all helped a bit, but the phone was getting really slow even in these ideal conditions, so I decided eventually to sell it off, the problem is the longer you hold onto a phone the more features you will miss out, and eventually your phone will be slow and components will start breaking down, so my advice is buy latest flagship, sell it after a year after buying the latest flagship that's how you can enjoy a fast phone that everything works in it, without spending as much (the mi 5s plus was sold for very cheap because it was very old so I don't recommend holding onto the phone for long)
I wish tech could stay like that lightbulb but it's not possible, even if you perfectly maintain the device (frequent cleaning, custom rom, replacing thermal paste and battery), the apps are requiring more and more resources and the OS will make your phone slow, so yeah buy and sell after one year,

You know, I was thinking about buying a Mac M1 Mini as a home theater server but, after watching this, I've decided I won't be buying any Apple products ever. I pity the fools who forked out $1200 for an Iphone 12 or 13, only to learn Apple was deliberately making their phones less performant, in effect sabotagining their performance, to induce these suckers to for over $1400 (?) for an Iphone 14 one or two years later.

Since Apple rarely change its product design my XR still looks kinda fresh. As long as the software update keeps coming ill stay with this.

No need to upgrade my iPhone 7 Plus, still works. Once good phone always a good phone.

Still using iphone 5s and note 10.

The centennial light doesn't work like it used to. It's not very bright. They being said, it's 120 years old. Just... Important when making a point that you don't take it out of the ballpark.

False and a very incomplete video. This video makes it like people upgraded from last year’s iPhone 13 only to the 14 when this is far from the truth. Yes there are people who did this but not all of them lots of people who bought a 14 was the target audience people with 12’s and older. And this whole planned obsolescence is bunk and here is why: apple offers full iOS support for 5-7 years on a device (and depending on that device some features of iOS aren’t added to account for the SoC on the phone )so there are devices out there right now like iPhone 8 and 10 with iOS 16. I don’t call this making devices so they rapidly decline it’s just the opposite. Apple just wants the user to have an iPhone device. (Hardware features depend on what the user wants out of the device) If they have an apple device that said device has some type of service or app on it from the App Store. Yes there will be people who buy upgrades but the money is also in services and applications that run on that iPhone. The content creators have the concept twisted.

As much of a good message this is, “don’t fix what isn’t broken.” There are enough reasons against that way of thinking.