dreamcomfortmemory

I take particular delight in not updating my iPhone. As an experiment I decided to never update the iPhone after initially getting it, am still on version 9. something and it looks like they have version 11 out now. I can report my iPhone is zippy as when I first got it. Maybe it would be just as fast with updates installed, I don't know.

Someday there will probably be some app critical to my work or something that will force me to update the operating system in order to use. If my phone slows to a crawl or starts freezing after that I guess that would be anecdotal evidence of this theory being true.

Kwijibo

Could just be expectation vs. reality. The users thinks the new phone should be faster, but it seems slow.

Unreasonable

No shit? They've taught planned obsolescence in engineering schools since the 60s. This is literally like saying, "we think auto companies are obsoleting their old lines since they don't make replacement parts for them anymore."

You'd have to be a complete idiot to NOT believe this is happening.

Don't buy Apple products.

toobaditworks

If you jailbreak the iPhone, if they still call it that, you can speed the phone back up by disabling certain hidden processes. I don't remember what they are so if you have one just jailbreak it and download a process killer and start killing. You'll know when you found the right one when your phone starts acting like it did when you bought it.

punchingtrees

I don't doubt that this could be the case, but could it also be that people see the new phone and are convincing themselves that they need it? "If I can't find a way to speed up my current phone, I might as well get the new one!"

Ionsurfer

They also release new software, around the same time.

10411581?

adobe has been doing this since... forever