In message <16193.1477594...@segfault.tristatelogic.com>, "Ronald F. Guilmette" writes: > > In message <20161027112940.gb17...@ussenterprise.ufp.org>, > Leo Bicknell <bickn...@ufp.org> wrote: > > >Actually, they encourage you to trade {your old iPhone} in... > >... > >If your device is too old for that program, they will still take > >it for free and recycle it in an enviornmentally friendly way... > > OK, so good on them. I do compliment them for their apparent willingness > to take back this pile of leachable heavy metals and do something > responsible with it. > > But to come back to the point, what if I really don't -want- to give > Apple another several hundred dollars this year? The baby needs shoes, > the gas tank is empty, and maybe I just don't -have- $600+ dollars this > month to further enrich their shareholders. > > My iPhone 3GS still works just fine, for the most part, so if I don't > really need all of the new whiz bang features of the newer ones, why > would I fork over big bucks to replace it? Just because TV commercials > entice me to do so?? > > The problem is, as I have said, this device is now the Apple equivalent > of Windows XP. There could be a horrendous collection of a dozen or > more known critical security bugs in the thing by now, but as someone > noted, the last update Apple issued for the thing was in Feb 2014.
But is there? Can you list a single security bug in iOS 6.1.6 that would require a iOS 6.1.7? Yes, it is annoying that iOS 10.x doesn't run on it so that you can't newer apps. > In the medical field, they use the term "orphan drugs" to refer to drugs > that have such a low return on investment that no manufacturer has any > interest in them anymore. We don't use that terminology in the tech > field because it would be redundant. *Every* tech product either already > is, or soon will be, an orphan. > > You can't *force* people to throw away or trade-in their old tech products, > especially when, from the user's point of view, there doesn't -seem- to be > anything wrong with them... like all of those pre- Sept. 2015 Internet video > cameras. (Well, -in theory- you could force people to do this. You could > legislate an Obamacare-esque tax which penalized everyone who -didn't- > throw away or trade-in their old tech gadgets after, say, 4 years, but I > don't think that would go down very well.) > > > Regards, > rfg -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org