[escardin]

They're screwed unless they update. Luckily the iPhone 6 was still getting security updates as of this year. It doesn't have ios 13+ but it does have security updates on 12.

As a 6 user for another month or so, my biggest complaint isn't slowness, it's the lack of ram that causes apps to be closed readily whenever you switch, compounded by the apps having to boot/reload again.

Most of the apps I use aren't IOS apps, they're things like chrome.

This is nothing like using a 3g or a 4 until they stopped getting updates, those were downright painful to use. This is merely frustrating.

I don't know what people expect from their phones, but 5-6 years of updates and the phone still running well is incredible. I hope my next iPhone gets me another 6 years. It seems likely.

I don't know what it's like in Android land, but I expect that the number people using a phone at all for 6 years is even less than those using old iPhones. At least they had way more ram for a same era phone.

[solveit]

> I don't know what people expect from their phones, but 5-6 years of updates and the phone still running well is incredible.

My phone is a computer that happens to occasionally make calls. I expect a flagship computer to easily last a decade and phones should too.

In fairness, this attitude of mine is fairly recent and probably attributable to the fact that phones are now the price of computers. So it only applies a little to the iPhone 6, but will apply in full power to the next iPhone.

[ta1234567890]

> I don't know what people expect from their phones, but 5-6 years of updates and the phone still running well is incredible.

I thought about that recently. And I would want for my phone to be something akin to my car, lasting for several years (10-20 of I take care of it), being able to repair it, and not needing constant updates just to keep working (although Tesla seems to be going in the smartphone direction).