I don't think so because if you go to the Apple forums there are many, many people who have had the same experience. If one contacts Apple their "fix" it to upgrade the product. Sorry, but I am old school and believe a product costing $500 should perform more than 3 or 4 years.
“I am old school and believe a product costing $500 should perform more than 3 or 4 years”
LOL-
Apple and others have to figure out how to MAKE more
money-selling you upgrades!! ??
maybe putting in little “tweaks” to degrade performance?
My iphone 4-s “hangs”- does not call correctly, goes into
rapid battery depletion- BUT not always!? wtf...
have had several techs look at it- their answer-
yep- would you like to upgrade? will give you a big
trade-in discount!- oh well, might buy a 6+ or
maybe a Samsung?
> I don't think so because if you go to the Apple forums there are many, many people who have had the same experience.
That doesn't contradict what I said. "Other additional causes"" could be other applications you -- and they -- have loaded, that perhaps I haven't. For example, there are apps that intentionally run network connections in the background (Skype, OpenVPN, etc.) for the benefit of other apps or to monitor online status -- those apps that you may forget about are actually consuming CPU and thus battery power.
"Many, many people"... well, when there are a hundred million devices in the field, what's "many, many"? How many comments did you read -- a hundred, a thousand? Unlikely the latter, and yet even that would be only a thousandth of a percent of the users -- 0.001%.
With that many units in the field, you'll find every possible combination of software, circumstances, and use patterns, so you'll see evidence of every possible unhappy interaction. Unhappy users often post comments on user forums. Happy users most often don't.
> If one contacts Apple their "fix" it to upgrade the product.
So far with three iPods, one iPad, one iPhone, and a handful of Macs over the years, I have yet to hear Apple support tell me the only way to fix a problem is to upgrade to a new product.
> Sorry, but I am old school and believe a product costing $500 should perform more than 3 or 4 years.
I agree with you on that. And in fact only one Apple product has crapped out in less than 4 years -- my first iPod, a hard-drive model, developed a power supply issue after about 3 years, and was replaced. All the rest have been running without problems since I got them. In a few cases they've exceeded 7 years by now and all are still in active daily use.
I suppose you might claim I'm lucky. Maybe I am. :)