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iMaps turn by turn doesn't work on the 4, but Google maps offers turn by turn on the 4. OK, that was a bad example, it's actually a blessing that imaps doesn't work on the 4 and you're restricted to Google maps. |
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06-12-2013, 03:58 PM | #32 |
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This is merely obsolescence by design, a business model made famous by the Detroit automakers long ago and practiced by nearly every major manufacturer in the USA and beyond! Nothing new here, nothing to cast stones at Apple over unless you also cast stones equally at all the other companies doing the same thing, and yes that includes the manufacturers of Android phones. If you (a "you" directed at no person in particular) owned a company that sold electronics, would you try to make every model you sold in the last 5 years remain compatible with all new firmware updates. I doubt it, unless of course you wanted to bankrupt the company. We consumers love shiny new things. We consumers demand shiny new things on a regular basis. They just give us what we want.
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Nobody's "making" anyone buy anything. I have an iPhone 4 that's well over 3 years old. It does exactly what I want, and I've no intention of upgrading it.
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Still there are a lot of people that are "compelled" in one way or another, to get the latest. You know them I am sure. No one twists their arm literally, but the expressions "Will have to get that," "must have that," "irresistible," etc., does come into play with a lot of those people. Some steal the phones or the money for the phones. Some use money that would be better spent elsewhere. Some trade kidneys for the phones. |
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Of course you would have to weed out the group that had device failures. (or claimed failures anyway) I have seen those kinds of numbers for cars |
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I remember taking driver's ed back in the '80, when the public-at-large was not familiar with computer GUI terms. The teacher asked us what the common name was for the indicator lights on car dashboards, like the little oil lamp and the light bulb symbols. I guessed "icon" since I was a computer geek. He scoffed and said "An icon is a religious image! The indicators are called 'idiot lights'." "Icon" vs. "idiot light." There's a political dichotomy for you. ApK Last edited by ApK; 06-14-2013 at 09:22 AM. |
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And most, if not all, of the apps in the iTunes store will run on your phone. If they didn't, would you still be satisfied with your phone?
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