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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
This brings forth a question: Why are so many updates needed?
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My experience with iDevices is that major OS updates offer better usability and improvements. My husband happily used an iPhone 6 until just a few months ago, because there were some apps he uses that would no longer run on the version of iOS the 6 was limited to. He was still getting security updates for that phone. So we got 8 years of solid use out of that phone. And it had more life, he just needed a newer device to run apps he needs.
I think Apple does a decent job of supporting older devices. As mentioned in another post, the 6S is able to run the current iOS. Not bad for a 7 year old phone.
We had plenty of flip phones over the years, none lasted anywhere near 8 years.
I can't speak to Android devices. We were not fans.