It is likely that, After several years With a devicenotice like It works worseHowever, it is normal, although formerly electronic and computer products lasted much more, which makes many people consider this cause.
Programmed obsolescence is a design strategy in which manufacturers use so that their products spoil or are outdated after a while, thus having to acquire another more recent, and again generate income to that brand.
Do Apple products have a limited life?
Apple He has been in the center of controversy over the obsolescence scheduled several times. One of the best known cases occurred In 2017when the company admitted that there was reduced the performance of some oldest iPhone models through software updates. They did this to avoid unexpected blackouts due to the aging of batteries, but many users interpreted it as a strategy to force them to buy new devices.
Currently, it is true that, once the battery is degraded, its performance is reduced, however, it does not come out, so that Apple excuse was quite bad in its day, and made it clear that everything was due to a scheduled obsolescence to acquire a new device.
After that controversy, Apple had to implement an option to be able to see the battery status, and offered very succulent discounts to change it, from only 29 euros officially.
Today, there are still those who believe that Apple could be applying scheduled obsolescence tactics, although not as obvious as in 2017. For example, many users have noticed that the oldest iPhones They start to go slower With software updates, especially when they are already several years old. Apple says that this is to improve the stability and safety of the device, but there are those who think it could be a way of make people want to buy a new model.
In our opinion, there is a bit of everything, and although it is true that an old iPhone can go worse due to a degraded battery, it does not make much sense that, if you change it, its performance is also bad, since even the photos and the camera work worse than the day you acquired it, and it is not because they are dirty precisely, so we could say that there is a factor of logical degradation, but Apple continues to help this happen, and so make you buy another iPhonealthough this happens after many years.
And you, have you noticed that any product of the company did not function as it should not have excessive use, and, therefore, that Apple had no excuse saying that it was because it was already bad due to wear? Leave us a comment with your opinion, and if you think this and other brands use the strategy of slowing down the devices so that you end up buying new ones, or it is simply our perception after a logical use and wear of the product.
