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Which devices were these? iPods?
People of all stripes (iOS and Windows and Android) generally change their phones out on a two year schedule to coincide with their carrier contract (at least in the US). I don't think you can paint Apple alone with that brush.
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iPods, iPhones, and iPads.
Even in phones, the rush to get in line to pay full price to replace a perfectly good <2 year old iPhone with a newer one seems to have predated the concept in the Android world by several years. The bulk of contract-term upgrades in the Android world are often a matter or "why not" because the subsidized phones are so cheap. The group that constantly gets the latest expensive Android phone each cycle is small enough that I don't know any of them personally.
We won't talk about Windows Phone users. I'll assume they'll keep upgrading until they finally get one worth keeping. ;-)
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And this thread and it's testimony from iPad users is prima facie evidence that that's not true either.
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My sister has upgraded her iPad three times, and, unlike with her many phones, it wasn't because she kept losing them.
Others report their experience and observations, I'm reporting mine.
This thread is anecdotal. That's fine. It's why we're here. But half a dozen posters saying they like their old iPads proves nothing more than my sister's upgrading does.
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It's certainly not true for their laptops either. People keep those forever because they pay a premium for them and they're built to run forever. Apple upgrades them even more slowly than it does their other devices.
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I'm speaking only about consumer iThings. I know little about the Mac world. I only recently got my first Mac, a used 2008 Macbook pro. I'm crossing my fingers that I'll be able to use the next version of XCode and do iOS 8 development on it, so I truly hope you are correct.