This time to put away that mince pie and those bottles of mulled wine as we wait for 2016 to greet us all, but not everyone will be welcoming the new year with a working iPhone. According to a new complaint about how iOS 9 is reported to impact the iPhone 4 significantly. Unfortunate for those affected, they're unable to downgrade from iOS 9 due to Apple security...
More than 100 iPhone 4s owners have asserted that the update has led to a negative experience on their smartphones to the point where it's simply unusable for daily use. Delayed launch times for apps, slower response on the touchscreen and sluggish performance overall plague said, owners. Then you have the reported freezing and crashes. Not fun times for anyone.
It's claimed that Apple knows all too well about iOS 9 and how the update makes the iPhone 4s not fit for use by owners and forcing them to either endure the issues above or fork out on an upgrade. Plaintiffs are now seeking more than $5 million in damages, with an option to treble. This isn't the first time Apple has been in trouble for planned obsolescence, with complaints in 2011 over poor performance and 2013 for lack of storage after updating.
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It should be noted that while Apple has been accused of intentionally slowing down older hardware with new updates, the company does insist that engineers on the performance teams use old phones as their daily drivers. It has also been reported that the exact opposite is the case in some tests, where newer updates applied to older hardware improves performance. Apple includes older models with new software as long as they can. People expect four-year-old iPhones to run the latest OS perfectly, and when they don't, Apple is accused of planned obsolescence, forcing people to upgrade. If they leave older devices out, Apple is accused of holding back features to force people to upgrade.
Even if these people have a point, $50,000 for what, we have two 4S's in my house, and I will say that IOS 9 is far from perfect on them. But to describe it as being unusable is just ridiculous. The iPhones are no worse in my experience than they were with IOS 8. Apple will solve this by allowing people to downgrade. Another option would be to cut off older devices from the upgrade cycle, but that would be unfair to everyone else. Clone mobile does not have these features like updating and other software, but they have many issues with it. A tech team declared that the clone mobiles have not good software, only the look matches and nothing more.😛
The last year I purchase an iPhone clone. They have so many issues. I have purchased 300 USD off, which was a loss, so I suggest that you never buy clone phones. My 4S runs like crap on IOS 9, and I understand that it is an old phone, but the point is that they don't allow people to revert to an older IOS, which is the issue at hand. I have had many old Android phones in the past, and when I've updated them to the latest version, and it runs like crap, I can at least return it to its less crappy form. Apple knows exactly what they are doing; they are not dumb and naive about the impacts an
The update does to a phone; it is a marketing tactic. The latest updates will impact performance on old devices. If they mentioned that people would either update or upgrade in the first place instead of reminding them every day, and I mean EVERY DAY, that there is another update available...
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