[Terry L Smith]

dear ray,

the circuitous cycle of that demonic word in gadgetry - ‘update’ - is what drove me FROM Apple, because the cycle of ‘update’ runs into the wall of ‘physical circuit restrictions’, i.e., the machine could not hold enough RAM to fully function, anymore.

IIRC, the iphone owner cannot access the RAM slot, to increase the RAM size, therefore, the future of the physical electronic circuitry architecture is already obsolete, making it a necessity to ‘upgrade’ your apple phone to the next level of architecture, and so on, and so on.

[RayChuang88]

But yet, thanks to Apple's VERY tight control of both the hardware and software design, they can do things with only 1 GB of RAM on the iPhone 6/6+ that many Android phones with 2 GB of RAM couldn't do. Indeed, an iPhone 5 from 2012 running the current iOS 8.4.1 (just released yesterday) is still a very good phone by 2015 standards, even if it lacks Touch ID and NFC found on the iPhone 6/6+ models.