[Yo-Yo]

Products are not merely hardware, Apple on the other hand is known for updating their 4 or 5 years old iPhone with the latest OS.

HA! Tell that to my still perfectly functional iPhone 5C that is stuck on iOS 10.3.3.

[itsahoot]

You bought crippled hardware at a cheap price, sort of like buying a black and white TV and complaining 5 years later that it won't do color. The TV still works just like your 5C just not the latest and greatest because it has limitations.

iPhone 5 was released in September 2012 and enjoyed 5 years of iOS support - that level of commitment and support is unheard of elsewhere in the mobile device market. Where the iPhone 5 saw four major iOS upgrades after its initial, out-of-the-box version (it came with iOS 6, then upgraded to iOS 7, 8, 9, and 10), most Android users (speaking from experience here) are lucky if they see just one major upgrade of Android. In fact, some of the Android devices I've had never saw one, single, major Android update. Not even on Samsung “flagship” devices!

Apple has the undisputably, longest lifecycle support of any device manufacturer.

[Swordmaker]

“Products are not merely hardware, Apple on the other hand is known for updating their 4 or 5 year old iphone with the latest OS.”

HA! Tell that to my still perfectly functional iPhone 5C that is stuck on iOS 10.3.3.

Release date of the iPhone 5c was September 20, 2013, almost SIX years ago.

The iPhone 5C is a 32 bit device and all versions of iOS after iOS 10 are 64 bit only. It cannot handle those updates. iOS 11 was released on September 19, 2017, four years after the release of the iPhone 5C, the same date they released of the iOS 10.3.3 update for all earlier iPhones.

[Ozark Tom]

September of 2019 will make six years since the product release date. The phone’s hardware did manage a transition from the original iOS7 to iOS10. A good run for the plastic 5C option versus the aluminum 5S, yes?

Disclosure—bought the first Apple product (iPad Pro) this month for the wife—initially with her artistic pursuits in mind. Still trying to tax it’s speedy visual capabilities and create a stutter. When the new iPadOS beta bugs are sorted out, will find out if it can truly replace a laptop.

[AFreeBird]

There comes a time when hardware can’t keep up with what the software wants to do.

Kinda like your mind making promises your body can’t keep. h/t Little Feat