‘Looks at perfectly functional Galaxy Watch 3 on my wrist’

  • Flying Squid
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    -16 months ago

    Sure, but how long until Apple does a whole new OS for their watch and stops supporting the old watches that can’t run it?

    • @thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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      76 months ago

      There are a lot of legitimate reasons to hate on Apple, but not supporting their products long-term is not one of them.

      Eventually they stop providing new OS updates, but they don’t brick/abandon devices.

      Hell, I turned on my old iPhone 5 recently for the first time in over a decade and it happily connected to Apple’s servers and updated to the last supported OS version.

      Even now that my Apple Watch isn’t receiving any more major OS updates, it can still interact with my up-to-date iPhone 14 without any issues.

      • Flying Squid
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        06 months ago

        I agree that’s true… for now. But when every other company is doing it?

        • @thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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          26 months ago

          If/when it happens, so be it - I’ll eat crow. But for the time being, Apple at least has long set/surpassed the standard for support lifetimes.

          At some point, you just have to have a little bit of faith that not every company is going to immediately screw you over the first chance they get; otherwise you’ll never end up buying anything (new or otherwise), with the fear that the moment you do - they’ll drop support.

          I mean, some companies do deserve that level of scepticism - but honestly, for all their other faults Apple is not one of them.

          • Flying Squid
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            06 months ago

            At some point, you just have to have a little bit of faith that not every company is going to immediately screw you over the first chance they ge

            We’re talking about the same company that sold a monitor stand for $1000, right?

    • @jdeath@lemm.ee
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      26 months ago

      the watches still work fine with an old OS. my son uses my old watch gen 1. it just doesn’t have all the new features or whatever