After the first year, you can choose to continue your subscription and support Sailfish OS development further. Even without renewal, your device will continue to function, but future software updates and commercial component upgrades will not be available.
This worries me a lot. Pay for updates is not a consumer friendly model.
Weird statement since Apple support their devices for 7 years after launch.
1 year is worse than basically every major mobile device manufacturer, even ASUS where they give you two years then the device will never get updates again.
This is get one year then pay a subscription and maybe they’ll keep doing updates. I couldn’t find a commitment on their site.
That has been rectified in 2017. iPhones these days do not slow down with new software updates any more than any other phone. They do throttle performance, if the battery is degraded to much but this is both communicated clearly and easily reversed by replacing the battery (even if you do it yourself or have it done by a third party, instead of paying apple’s admittedly high price).
Apple have plenty of anti-consumer behavior in other places. Treading around on an issue that is older than any currently supported iPhone, however, instead on focusing on current issues (like lack of app sideloading anywhere but in the EU, for example) is not conducive to actually getting Apple (or other corporations) to change their behavior. This battle has already been won.
i rather like the subscription. then you pay for the exact amount you need.
you still pay for it on other phones but you have a limit like 3-7 years.
like who uses a iphone for 7 years. you pay for it but what if the phone breaks after 2 years. wasted money.
i rather have a cheaper phone and pay for updates the duration i use it. i mean they could just slap an extra 300 dollar on the phone for 4 years updates, but most of my phones break after 2 years and that would be 60 dollar on the subscription
This worries me a lot. Pay for updates is not a consumer friendly model.
1 year planned obsolescence is even worse than Apple
Weird statement since Apple support their devices for 7 years after launch.
1 year is worse than basically every major mobile device manufacturer, even ASUS where they give you two years then the device will never get updates again.
This is get one year then pay a subscription and maybe they’ll keep doing updates. I couldn’t find a commitment on their site.
And then they make your device slower after 3 to make you buy a new one
That has been rectified in 2017. iPhones these days do not slow down with new software updates any more than any other phone. They do throttle performance, if the battery is degraded to much but this is both communicated clearly and easily reversed by replacing the battery (even if you do it yourself or have it done by a third party, instead of paying apple’s admittedly high price).
Apple have plenty of anti-consumer behavior in other places. Treading around on an issue that is older than any currently supported iPhone, however, instead on focusing on current issues (like lack of app sideloading anywhere but in the EU, for example) is not conducive to actually getting Apple (or other corporations) to change their behavior. This battle has already been won.
iOS underclocks the CPU when battery condition is poor / doesn’t hold charge very long.
You can turn off the throttling in settings or just get a battery replacement.
i rather like the subscription. then you pay for the exact amount you need.
you still pay for it on other phones but you have a limit like 3-7 years. like who uses a iphone for 7 years. you pay for it but what if the phone breaks after 2 years. wasted money.
i rather have a cheaper phone and pay for updates the duration i use it. i mean they could just slap an extra 300 dollar on the phone for 4 years updates, but most of my phones break after 2 years and that would be 60 dollar on the subscription
You don’t have to use sailfish, but sailfish has been around for years for those willing to pay for a subscription.