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11/11/2018 06:05

Subject: How often do you replace your iPhone?

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Anonymous wrote:50% replace each year
45% every two years

I can't even imagine keeping a phone for 5 years, I don't even keep my cars for 5 years

jfc.
We've had our car 15 years and still think of it as our new car. If you buy good quality and take care of things, they last.

You both made me LOL. Thanks for brightening my weekend.

I first clicked on this thread because I thought, "Why would people just replace a phone if it still works?" Just replaced the 16YO car, which outlasted the previous one by a few years. Oh, and iPhone is just a few months old, but glad to know I can buy a battery now for $29.

My dad’s car is 34 years old! A Volvo. We have a 15 year old Honda that we also think of as our new car.

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11/11/2018 06:07

Subject: How often do you replace your iPhone?

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:50% replace each year
45% every two years

I can't even imagine keeping a phone for 5 years, I don't even keep my cars for 5 years

jfc.
We've had our car 15 years and still think of it as our new car. If you buy good quality and take care of things, they last.

You both made me LOL. Thanks for brightening my weekend.

I first clicked on this thread because I thought, "Why would people just replace a phone if it still works?" Just replaced the 16YO car, which outlasted the previous one by a few years. Oh, and iPhone is just a few months old, but glad to know I can buy a battery now for $29.

My dad’s car is 34 years old! A Volvo. We have a 15 year old Honda that we also think of as our new car.

Repeat after me: cars are not the same as phones which are intentionally designed to crap out around the time newer models with different operating system are introduced.

The thread is about phones which don't last forever by design and y'all are up in here like "well I never felt the need to replace my house/diamond ring, it still works fine." NO SHIT!

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11/11/2018 06:32

Subject: How often do you replace your iPhone?

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Anonymous

My goal is longer than three years. It usually becomes horribly inefficient by 2.5 years.

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11/11/2018 09:10

Subject: Re:How often do you replace your iPhone?

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Anonymous

Never. I buy real phones.

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11/11/2018 09:15

Subject: How often do you replace your iPhone?

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:50% replace each year
45% every two years

I can't even imagine keeping a phone for 5 years, I don't even keep my cars for 5 years

jfc.
We've had our car 15 years and still think of it as our new car. If you buy good quality and take care of things, they last.

You both made me LOL. Thanks for brightening my weekend.

I first clicked on this thread because I thought, "Why would people just replace a phone if it still works?" Just replaced the 16YO car, which outlasted the previous one by a few years. Oh, and iPhone is just a few months old, but glad to know I can buy a battery now for $29.

My dad’s car is 34 years old! A Volvo. We have a 15 year old Honda that we also think of as our new car.

Repeat after me: cars are not the same as phones which are intentionally designed to crap out around the time newer models with different operating system are introduced.

The thread is about phones which don't last forever by design and y'all are up in here like "well I never felt the need to replace my house/diamond ring, it still works fine." NO SHIT!

smart phones can also last more then 2 years. If the battery is an issue, get a new one. If the iphone battery craps out after 2 years, don't get an iphone. There are others on the market that have a longer shelf life.

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11/11/2018 09:17

Subject: Re:How often do you replace your iPhone?

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I'm rocking a iphone 5s, works fine, probably needs a new battery but I have a charging case to mitigate.

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11/11/2018 09:37

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:I'm rocking a iphone 5s, works fine, probably needs a new battery but I have a charging case to mitigate.

see folks.. a solution that doesn't require spending several hundreds dollar every one to two years.

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11/11/2018 09:50

Subject: Re:How often do you replace your iPhone?

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Anonymous

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Anonymous wrote:I'm rocking a iphone 5s, works fine, probably needs a new battery but I have a charging case to mitigate.

see folks.. a solution that doesn't require spending several hundreds dollar every one to two years.

How on earth a 5s is operating in iOS whatever version we are on is beyond me but it is not the norm. It's not about wanting a new phone every two years. Eventually, the operating system currently in place is not operable by the older phones. An iPhone 4 might make a call but at this point that is ALL it can do.

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11/11/2018 13:16

Subject: How often do you replace your iPhone?

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Anonymous

This is a timely question because ds’s iPhone has apparently gone kaput so I am considering giving him mine and getting a new one for me. I don’t need a new one at all, and think of mine as pretty new but I researched the original purchase and It was 3 years ago. I just got a new battery for it and expected to hold on to it for a few more years.

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11/11/2018 13:25

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Anonymous

My contract with my cell phone company gets me an inexpensive upgrade every two years...so, every two years. I got the iPhone 8 last January for an extra $20/month for a year on my bill.

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11/11/2018 13:31

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Have an iphone for work now but DS has my old personal iphone and just replaced the battery. Plan to do that when I have to go back to buying my own phone. Right now I just call IT and their response is that it's "easier" to replace the phone than the battery. Not if my 14 yo can do it. lol

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11/11/2018 13:31

Subject: How often do you replace your iPhone?

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Anonymous

This month is five years of having my first iPhone. Happy birthday, Bubbles!

I'll keep it until it doesn't work anymore.

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11/11/2018 13:35

Subject: How often do you replace your iPhone?

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Anonymous

I replace when my current one dies. I have zero interest in having the newest technology. But I try not to live in my phone.