I had an iPhone 4s (purchased in 2012) which suffered from intermittent shutdown in 2016. I was thinking it is battery issue since I had over 800 cycles on it. Went to apple store for a $79 battery replacement (out of warranty). Apple found that it was an hardware issue and not battery. They gave me a brand new iPhone 4S (same model) for free. That phone is over 400 battery cycles now and the battery is still at 94% of original capacity. It runs great since I never updated the iOS (still at iOS 6). Most of the performance issues arise due to newer OS requiring more out of your old phone’s hardware and what suffers the most is the battery to provide all the extra power for more demanding OS.
More problems for Apple
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Well, apple has a very good connection to their customers. What I mean: if you like apple, you always buy apple products. And do not care about the price.
For me the price is too high - the relation price / quality has an overweight on the price side.
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Missing Steve Jobs…
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I agree I dont have the money for most apple things. the apple products that I have were either gifts, won in raffles, or free. besides that I cant afford the apple price tag.
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Do Samsung make apple batteries?
i know samsung makes some of apples screens or they did at one point idk if they still do. not sure about batteries though
Basically Apple made a software that intentially messes up the battery so people think their phone is slow then they buy a new phone so Apple get more sales/profit which is what Apple always cares about and not about its products and customers. I had to change my battery after 2 years of use. And one of my relatives has a iPhone 4s and since they bought in( 6to 7 years ago) they haven’t upgraded the software and they haven’t changed their battery since, that is the reason you should not upgrade the software as it messes up the battery’s functionality. Well that’s my opinion anyway…
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There are sites, that’ll tell you who makes what for apple. Also watch breakdown videos, where they’re taken apart, and often they’ll say what is what.
I know Samsung n Sony make lots of parts for apple, and also some tech from Moto (they own a lot of patents allobiles need).
Hitachi owns IPS software/tech that allows you to view a screen at lots of angles. Without it, it like an old monitor where you have to look straight at the screen.
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I’m not sure where you are getting your findings, but from the research I have read and experienced they have decent battery life and the average iPhone typically stays supported years longer than android phones. I have an old iPhone 4 (for back up when my Android phone fails) that is no longer supported. Its battery is still strong. The phone is slow but it still works better than many newer Android phones that are no longer supported.
My wife just replaced her iPhone 6 battery even though it was at 96% percent life according to Apple. Apple still replaced the battery under the replacement policy that just ended. Its still a great phone and fast enough to access many of the apps on the market.
You should easily get 3 or 4 years out of a new iPhone and may not have to replace the battery unless you are power user.
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Samsung SDI and LG Chem are 2 suppliers. There can be more.
That’s what happens when the quest for thinness if favoured over construction…cough cough…new iPad pro…
But when the scale of reports is taken into consideration, they sell millions of devices yet only a few thousand ever make the press for issues, from which we never find out the circumstances from which the issue has developed…screen hinge forced too much, iPhone in back pocket bent from 200+lb person sitting on it etc…
Apple products don’t have military grade resistance to common usage issues, though for the prices charged it might no be a bad idea toughening them up a bit more 
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VERY old iphone, old ipod, old ipad I own.
As there are no more updates/upgrades available these are working fine. 
But this is the reason I would never go for such “sour apples”.
Regarding old Macbooks : With LINUX these are doing well.
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Apple drop models quicker than android. Unlike apple, older android phones still receive app updates, and security updates, both of which dont happen with iPhones, just not operating updates.
Plus, (was made public knowledge) android don’t slow down their older fines, and restrict the batteries. Although I “think” apple have backtracked on the battery issue n sent out codes to stop, killing older phones batteries.
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yeh as you said the previous generations iPhones are pretty much better than the new ones for battery as when you upgrade the software it messes up your battery to deliver peak performance on you phone. i bought by iPhone 6 brand new at the end of 2016 and i had to replace it on the December of 2018 as it kept randomly shutting down, overheating, and sometimes it never charged. the battery was poor too. after 2 years the battery health was on 80 percent which means thats its significantly degraded so this may suggest that the apples batteries are pretty horrendous tbh.
oh right cool.
Reminds me of the stickers I had years n years ago. And to have a joke, I put the stickers on my portable blaster (it was a 3d superwoofer by Hitachi) and called it a APPLE MAC BLASTER (Mac being my name)
The place where I first learnt to turn on n use a pc, had a brand new Apple Macintosh computer (it was all built into the monitor, which for 1992 was bloody amazing.
The PCs I was using had 100mb ram!
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One of the first computer I wrote some software (in assembler language) was a ROLM 1602B. The RAM was 16kB. Extendable to 32 kB. The (removable !) hard disk had 60 MB. And this was in the 1980’s ! You see how fast this all has changed !
For the telephone you see above there was an adapter available - something like a “headphone” - and with this and a modem you could transfer data via the analog telephone line …
What iOS you running on that? Lol
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Doesn’t your phone ever rot though?