“That’s the nice thing about the iPhone and Apple in general, including my four-year-old Macbook Pro. They normally (unless you do something to screw them up) run almost like new for years.”
These are very true words. I’ve had an identical experience to yours. People too rarely comment on Apple device simplicity, quality and reliability.
As long as you aren’t one of the folks who gets screwed in an OS upgrade, then you will fight the monster and largely be ignored if the problem isn’t big enough for Apple to decide to address it.
Just spent the entire weekend dealing with OSx upgrade issues and IOS7 breaking code that worked perfectly fine because Apple loves to just change things for whatever whims it has. I figure I’ll spend at least another 2 days rewriting code just to deal with their issues.
Apple strives for a high bar, but they are not perfect.