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Rise to wake - Does it work for anyone? (iPhone 6)
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I'm going to take exception to an underlying premise here: Apple can do whatever it wants to the phones it engineers and manufactures and its not evil for putting new features on new phones without including old phones. Refrigerators frequently get new features. In most cases, there would be no way to make these features backwards compatible (for obvious reasons). Does that make the refrigerator manufacturer evil?
This situation is a little different, because Apple theoretically could bring new features to older phones. That they have chosen not to might be for technical reasons, it might be for support reasons, it might be for development reasons (cost and time) or it might be because it wants to entice you to buy a new phone.
Re the latter, guess what? Thats what they do. All this nice software and hardware is to get you to part ways with a substantial amount of money. They are not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts; they want to make money. Just like you do when you go to work. Of course, in a saturated market, they're not going to sell a lot of phones if the feature set on the original iphone never gets updated. So they need to innovate and put new features on new phones that consumers then want to buy.
So many of you act like you have some entitlement here to every new feature. You don't. You are entitled to what you paid for when you bought your phone, nothing more. The fact that you get new software-enabled features at all is due to a decision by Apple to do so, likely reflective of the 2 year upgrade cycle. There is nothing wrong with this. Your phone is not diminished in any way. It does everything it did when you bought it, and likely quite a bit more.
This "planned obsolescence" griping is a rather nasty manifestation of jealousy: "I'm jealous because someone else's phone does things my phone doesn't". Your phone is the same phone it was. Get over it. Its ok to be disappointed (as i was when I learned my iphone 6 was not getting voicemail transcription, a feature i really wanted). Its not ok to say Apple is "evil" for doing this.
*obviously, I'm not including really old phones in this discussion. They do face real obsolescence issues, both due to increased software demands and physical obsolescence, as well as support demands.
This situation is a little different, because Apple theoretically could bring new features to older phones. That they have chosen not to might be for technical reasons, it might be for support reasons, it might be for development reasons (cost and time) or it might be because it wants to entice you to buy a new phone.
Re the latter, guess what? Thats what they do. All this nice software and hardware is to get you to part ways with a substantial amount of money. They are not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts; they want to make money. Just like you do when you go to work. Of course, in a saturated market, they're not going to sell a lot of phones if the feature set on the original iphone never gets updated. So they need to innovate and put new features on new phones that consumers then want to buy.
So many of you act like you have some entitlement here to every new feature. You don't. You are entitled to what you paid for when you bought your phone, nothing more. The fact that you get new software-enabled features at all is due to a decision by Apple to do so, likely reflective of the 2 year upgrade cycle. There is nothing wrong with this. Your phone is not diminished in any way. It does everything it did when you bought it, and likely quite a bit more.
This "planned obsolescence" griping is a rather nasty manifestation of jealousy: "I'm jealous because someone else's phone does things my phone doesn't". Your phone is the same phone it was. Get over it. Its ok to be disappointed (as i was when I learned my iphone 6 was not getting voicemail transcription, a feature i really wanted). Its not ok to say Apple is "evil" for doing this.
*obviously, I'm not including really old phones in this discussion. They do face real obsolescence issues, both due to increased software demands and physical obsolescence, as well as support demands.
Exactly. Don't like it, don't keep buying Apple products "bent over with your bare rear exposed" as you feel that you are somehow because your old phone doesnt do the latest and greatest functions.
This happens ALL the time in consumer products. They next year car has a new navigation system that does stuff the old couldnt. For example I bought a new Ford car and the next year they revamped the touchscreen system totally; am I butthurt, no. Am I going to go buy a whole new car for a few more nav system functions? Hell no. Or how about that laptop from last year wont perform the same functions or run some games as a brand new one in all cases in a big processor generation jump.
Your CHOICE not to upgrade is no one else's fault if you lack a feature you want. Pay the $ or there is no room to b*tch and complain. I dont see raise to wake as some game changing life altering function anyone should be solely upgrading for or complaining about not having. You lived with a phone how many years without this function just fine?
But most people are all talk and bark and no bite, wont do anything about it or switch devices.
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