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firebush03 said:
curl-6 said:

Never had any such issues myself. My phone from 2018 still works just fine.

On the flipside, I'm stopped using a bunch of apps and services over the last year or so as they've gone to shit in terms of being intentionally worse to try to squeeze more money.

That’s always how my phones go out. My theory is that the processor isn’t capable of handling the latest OS from Apple, causing it to overheat. And being so old and its interior deteriorated, that just makes things worse to a point when the heat literally has undone the glue on my phone screen.

I should add that only recently the daily high in TX dropped below triple digits. Now it’s a cool and crisp 85-90 every day. (I guess its understandable why my phone would be overheating, in retrospect….)

Yeah, one notable factor in why old stuff slows down is that companies do it purposefully to try to force people to upgrade: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67911517

Devices do of course wear out over time, but this is also partly intentional; companies know that if they make a device that will last 20 years, you're less likely to upgrade any time soon, so they make stuff out of poor quality materials on purpose, so that it dies after a few years, again as a way of forcing people to keep buying one ones